Comminations [noun]

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.

The text consists of a commination said to have been uttered by Lao Tz, and directed against evil-doers of all kinds.

There was a little burst of thanksgiving in her heart, and then she prepared a very notable commination service in her mind.

All that is given us p. 109is a sort of Commination Service writ large.

Then follows a commination at the end, which is not unusual in such cases.

As our Commination Service declares, persons who stood convicted of notorious sins were formerly put to open penance.