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

Annabel Cleeve now contributed her little damnatory verse to the commination service.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia

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

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

It sounds to me much more like a commination service.

From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret

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