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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It sounds to me much more like a commination service.
From The Moon out of Reach by Margaret Pedler
"Oh, hang Professor Wildmarsh!" said Keniston, softening the commination with a smile.
From Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton
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 E. Rameur
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 John Oxenham
