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Commination

Commination \Com`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. comminatio, from comminari to threaten; com- + minari to threaten: cf. F. commination.]

  1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

    With terrible comminations to all them that did resist.
    --Foxe.

    Those thunders of commination.
    --I. Taylor.

  2. An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.

Wiktionary
commination

n. a formal denunciation; especially one threatening divine punishment, read out in church on Ash Wednesday

WordNet
commination
  1. n. prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday

  2. a threat of divine punishment or vengeance

Usage examples of "commination".

Poison-Pen was swamped and well-nigh forgotten in that stream of genial commination always poured out from the lips of examinees elect upon examining bodies.

A papal excommunication is a billet-doux compared to the Commination of Jugana.

He opened it, expecting to find in it the usual Commination Service on things in general, but as he read on, a vivid surprise spread over his face.

A dreadful judgment, says the Commination Service, is always hanging over the heads of those who do wrong, and always ready to fall on them, without waiting for the last day, thousands of years hence.

Babinet, or those of the other infinitely more terrible comminations, so far as they rest on the authority of Jonathan Edwards?

Kami said from beneath his breathing apparatus, while the Karbarrans were busy hurling comminations at Baldan.

Javert did not accept such comminations, and would have bristled up against such compromises.

The last is on the subject of religion, and by it's publication will gratify the priesthood with new occasion of repeating their Comminations against me.

Rawdon Crawley, the Dowager Countess wrote back such a letter regarding Becky, with such particulars, hints, facts, falsehoods, and general comminations, that intimacy between Mrs.