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adj. Giving or serving as a warning; admonitory: a cautionary tale; cautionary advice.

adj. Serving to caution or warn; admonitory

adj. Serving to ward off; preventive

adj. Held as security or hostage

adj. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger.

adj. Given as a pledge or as security.

adj. Wary; cautious.

Containing a caution, or warning to avoid danger: as, cautionary advice.

Given as a pledge or in security.

And it is resolved that it [a benevolence raised for the crown in Devon] shall only be employed for the payment of his debts, as namely for Ireland, the Navy, and the Cautionary Towns in the Low Countries; and so, leaving the carriage of this business to your discretions and wisdoms, we bid you heartily farewell.

n. Same as cautionry.

adj. warding off

adj. serving to warn

"He looked guardedly up and down the road, his expression cautionary now, one white man to another."

protective    dissuasive   

cautionary town   

wary    cautious    warning   

admonitory    premonitory    long-nailed    prefatory    snide    minatory    conspiratorial    dystopian    wives    well-told