commination
Example Sentences
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It sounds to me much more like a commination service.
From The Moon out of Reach by Margaret Pedler
Nowhere, however, in this Epistle is there any trace of an established ministry; on the contrary, at the close, the 'spiritual' among them are instructed to administer the office of commination.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
Then Oliver had a try; but in a minute he, too, was reciting the commination service.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
For some moments he kept silence—as if in unspeakable commination.
From Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
