commination

Example Sentences

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They toiled upward with stubborn determination, and wasted breath in voluble commination of the length of the way, when they could have employed it more usefully in compassing it.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

His method is to ask at once more than human nature can be expected to give, and then pour out a whole commination service of anathemas when his demands are not complied with.

From Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly' by Murray, Gilbert

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

Then follows a commination at the end, which is not unusual in such cases.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

He's cursed me forever—Put it all down in black and white—a regular commination service.

From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)