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The term "monition" has been used in literature to embody both a warning and a broader, more ambiguous form of counsel or inspiration. In Thomas Carlyle’s work, it serves as a foreboding message about the inevitability of resistance and the consequences of bloodshed, conveying an almost fatalistic inevitability in the face of revolution [1]. Carlyle further employs the word to suggest that the innate guidance of one's wild heart could be interpreted as a sort of divinely inspired warning or counsel emanating from genius [2]. Meanwhile, M. E. Braddon challenges the concept by musing whether such monition might at times verge on a form of obsessive mania, thus highlighting its complex and multifaceted usage in literary contexts [3].
  1. The message and monition of the figure was, that resistance would be hopeless; that if blood flowed, wo to him who shed it.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  2. Their own wild heart and what faith it has will guide them: and is not that the monition of some genius, better or worse?
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  3. Was it a monition, or a monomania?
    — from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon

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