Definitions for commination

commination com·mi·na·tion

Spelling: [kom-uh-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌkɒm əˈneɪ ʃən/

Commination is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 364 anagrams from letters in commination (aciimmnnoot).

Definitions for commination

noun

  1. a threat of punishment or vengeance.
  2. a denunciation.
  3. (in the Church of England) a penitential office read on Ash Wednesday in which God's anger and judgments are proclaimed against sinners.

Origin of commination

1400-50; late Middle English (Anglo-French) Latin comminātiōn- (stem of comminātīo), equivalent to commināt(us), past participle of comminārī to threaten (com- com- +

Examples for commination

Then Oliver had a try; but in a minute he, too, was reciting the commination service.

And that we can only answer by the context of the commination Service.

Then follows a commination at the end, which is not unusual in such cases.

This general sentence of excommunication is clearly the origin of the form of commination still said on Ash Wednesday.

All that is given us is a sort of commination Service writ large.

Is the commination service uncharitable, is the preacher uncharitable, when they tell men so?

But I find no such prayer and wish in any word of the commination Service.

Many good people are pained by the commination Service which we have just heard read.

In that hour that earlier form of absolution will reverse itself on his lips into one of commination.

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

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