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Meaning of cautionary

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  cautionary
      adj 1: warding off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic
             symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze
             [syn: {cautionary}, {prophylactic}]
      2: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
         exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary},
         {exemplary}, {monitory}, {warning(a)}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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