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commination
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synonyms: anathema ???
tags: [christianity]
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Definition:1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.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.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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his dread of that owner amounted to superstition; and he confined his feelings regarding him to muttered innuendoes and private comminations.
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Barney indulged in a brief commination service in which both the works he had named featured largely. She would not, she said, read either of them on a bet.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.174 (1971)
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But what is the trivial, temporal accident of the wiping out of a planet and its inhabitants to the infinite catastrophe which shall establish a mighty world of eternal despair? And which is it most desirable for mankind to have disproved or weakened, the grounds of the threat of M. Babinet, or those of the other infinitely more terrible comminations, so far as they rest on the authority of Jonathan Edwards?
Oliver Wendall Holmes. Pages from an Old Volume of Life (1861)
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