commination
noun
a threat of punishment or vengeance.
comminatory
-
a word derived from
commination.
Example Sentences
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A few years later, I got a comminatory phone call from one of the firm's founders.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, such as Britain once sent to Finland, was drawn up in three versions.
From Time Magazine Archive
But presently Arran began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Edith Wharton
And here we may pause in our miserable and comminatory progress to admit gladly that in such societies are to be found plenty of talent and of what is much rarer, sincerity.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
The introduction of the word 'bourgeois' as a comminatory epithet into the English language, by bourgeois writers writing for the bourgeois, will remain a memorial for ever, for the philological humourist to chuckle over.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
