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Definition of Comminations
1. commination [n] - See also: commination
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comminations
Literary usage of Comminations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1829)
"its publication will gratify the priesthood with new occasion of repeating their
comminations against me. They wish it to be believed that he can have no ..."
2. Prophecy viewed in respect to its distinctive nature, its special function by Patrick Fairbairn (1865)
"But as to comminations or threats, no right or debt accrues to the persons to
whom they are made, save only a debt or merit of punishment. ..."
3. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1861)
"Stillingfleet* remarks upon this point, " comminations of judgments to come do
... So that comminations do speak only the debitum poena and the necessary ..."
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