commination

Example Sentences

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For some moments he kept silence—as if in unspeakable commination.

From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Always, at the end of these commination services, Tom would say to Dennis, the man, "I an't a-speakin' to you, old socks, so keep yer hair on."

From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Vachell, Horace Annesley

Now this commination, unexpected as it was from a lady of wealth and position, was not altogether unwarranted, and so I went on.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Jókai, Mór

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