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Commination   Listen
noun
Commination  n.  
1.
A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. "With terrible comminations to all them that did resist." "Those thunders of commination."
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.





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"Commination" Quotes from Famous Books



... teaches confession and absolution; to the Baptismal Service, in which the Priest speaks of the child after baptism as regenerate; to the Catechism, in which Sacramental Communion is receiving "verily the Body and Blood of Christ;" to the Commination Service, in which we are told to do "works of penance;" to the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to the calendar and rubricks, wherein we find the festivals of the apostles, notice of certain other saints, and ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman


Words linked to "Commination" :   petition, prayer, orison, threat


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