comminatory
/kom-uh-ney-shuhn/US // ˌkɒm əˈneɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌkɒmɪˈneɪʃən) //
换句话说,换言之,换算,换算的
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a threat of punishment or vengeance.
- : a denunciation.
- : a penitential office read on Ash Wednesday in which God's anger and judgments are proclaimed against sinners.
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Examples
The breezes that blew around his mouth in that walk carried off upon them the accents of a commination.
In that hour that earlier form of absolution will reverse itself on his lips into one of commination.
Then Oliver had a try; but in a minute he, too, was reciting the commination service.
This is as it should be, enabling a sound Briton to go to church, without praying for the Commination Service.
They have held Commination Services, recited mantras, and cursed us solemnly for days.
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