2 adjectives to describe admonishment

110 Or like a man from some far region sent, To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.

She kept the tyrant at bay; but perhaps the Emir, who, so far as physical force was concerned, held her in the hollow of his hand, might have proceeded to extremities if he had not received a severe admonishment from Stratford Canning at Constantinople.

2 adjectives to describe  admonishment