commination

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday
noun a threat of divine punishment or vengeance

From Latin comminātiō, from comminor (“to threaten”).

A papal excommunication is a billet-doux compared to the Commination of Jugana. — The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English, Unknown
Terrible were the expressions of choler and comminations which burst forth from his fulminating tusks. — Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, Walter Savage Landor
Had he chosen another interpretation and delayed, and been mistaken, then, too, commination would have fallen. — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston

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