Commination

Definition: Commination

Commination

Noun

1. Prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday.

2. A threat of divine punishment or vengeance.

Date "commination" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references)

Etymology: Commination \Com`mi*na"tion\, noun. [Latin expression comminatio, from comminari to threaten; com- minari to threaten: compare to the French expression commination.]. (Websters 1913)

"Commination" is a common misspelling or typo for: combination, commendation.

Synonyms within Context: Commination

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malediction	Noun: malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.
Threat	Noun: threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination; (curse); gathering clouds; (warning).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Commination

Language		Translations for "commination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kërcënim (blackmail, chantage, denouncement, imminence, intimidation, menace, saltation, threat, threatening), denoncim. (various references)

Farsi		لعن ونفرین , تهدیدبمجازات , تکفیر. (various references)

Italian		comminazione. (various references)

Pig Latin		omminationcay

Romanian		ameninţare (menace, threat, threatening). (various references)

Russian		угроза (danger, fulmination, imminence, menace, threat). (various references)

Turkish		uyarı (admonition, admonitory, advice, caution, caveat, demerit, demerit mark, exhortation, injunction, lecture, monition, notice, remark, remonstrance, tip off, warning), ikaz (awakening, caution, caveat, monition, notice, tip off, warning), göz korkutma. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự hăm doạ (intimidation, threatening). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Commination

Rhyming with "Commination"

Words rhyming with "commination" (pronounced 'Com`mi*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Anagrams: Commination

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	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-o-t"
	-2 letters: ammonitic, antinomic, monatomic, nonatomic.
	-3 letters: amnionic, amniotic, conation, inaction, mannitic, monition.
	-4 letters: actinon, ammonic, amotion, anionic, coition, comitia, contain, minicam, nicotin.
	-5 letters: action, aminic, ammino, ammono, amnion, anoint, anomic, atomic, atonic, camion, cannot, canton, cation, commit, common, incant, intima, manioc, manito, mantic, minima, minion, miotic, motion, nation, niacin, nomina, noncom, notion, oomiac, tannic, tinman.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-o-t"
	+1 letter: comminations.
	+2 letters: communication, communization.
	+3 letters: ammonification, communications, communizations.
	+4 letters: ammonifications, communicational, excommunication.
	+5 letters: excommunications, immunodiagnostic, miscommunication, noncommunicating, noncommunication, noncommunicative, noncommutativity.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "commination": comminations. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Commination

Definition: Commination

Commination

Noun

Synonyms within Context: Commination

Malediction

Threat

Modern Translation: Commination

Albanian

Farsi

Italian

Pig Latin

Romanian

Russian

Turkish

Vietnamese

Derivations: Commination

Derivations

Rhyming with "Commination"

Anagrams: Commination

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