admonishern.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. v. f. xiii^v To heale the thinges that are amysse in a man, it is not a lytell auayleable for a teacher or an admonysher [L. docentis, aut admonentis] to vse a softe temperaunce.

1570 T. Wilson in tr. Demosthenes 3 Orations Epist. sig. *ij Your good admonisher, and teacher in your yonger yeares.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 113 [What] a blessing to haue such a faithfull admonisher in ones bosome.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum iii. 36 He did not know whether his admonisher were black or white..an evill or a good spirit.

1735 H. Jacob Fatal Constancy ii. i, in Wks. 207 With an heavy Hand Correction comes, If we neglect the kind Admonisher.

1797 E. Inchbald Wives as they Were iii. i. 50 Eloquent admonisher of youth!

1840 R. Browning Sordello v. 411 Courteously He turned then, even seeming to agree With his admonisher.

1889 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 13 162 The family-priest is a private admonisher when his opinion is requested, not a public holder of state polity.

1906 S. Low Vision of India xiii. 190 He is judge, governor, supreme adviser, tax-collector, chief magistrate, agricultural expert, and general admonisher, of his subjects.

1970 M. Pointon Milton & Eng. Art ii. 49 A rather ungainly Eve grovels before her admonisher.

2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 386 Gonçalves rose to his feet and turned to his admonisher.