commination

Example Sentences

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"Oh, hang Professor Wildmarsh!" said Keniston, softening the commination with a smile.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

It sounds to me much more like a commination service.

From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret

MALEDICTON, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, fulmination.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

Nature denounces, in her loud commination service, his clammy hand, his restless eye, his sinister and bestial mouth.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

Lest, however, this commination should not prove terrible enough, the examples of Belshazzar and others were judiciously subjoined.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn