Commination

  • 61proscription — Synonyms and related words: Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, anathema, anathematizing, ban, banishment, blackball, blacklist, blasphemy, boundary, bounds, boycott, boycottage, censure, commination, condemnation, confinement …

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  • 62saber rattling — Synonyms and related words: aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicose, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, bulldozing, chauvinism, combativeness, commination, contentiousness, denunciation, empty threat, ferocity,… …

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  • 63sword of Damocles — Synonyms and related words: bulldozing, chanciness, commination, criticalness, delicacy, denunciation, doubtfulness, dubiousness, empty threat, foreboding, hazardousness, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, insecurity, instability,… …

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  • 64threat — Synonyms and related words: admonishment, admonition, alarm, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, caution, caveat, commination, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, deterrent example, emergency, endangerment, example, final notice, final… …

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  • 65thundering — Synonyms and related words: Donar, Indra, Jupiter Tonans, Thor, anathema, ban, banging, blasphemy, boom, booming, bumping, cannonading, commination, curse, damnation, deafening, deep, denunciation, dread rattling thunder, echo, echoic, echoing,… …

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  • 66warning — Synonyms and related words: admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory, advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call, call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue, commination,… …

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  • 67whammy — Synonyms and related words: Jonah, amulet, anathema, bad blood, bad influence, bad temper, bad will, ban, bedroom eyes, blasphemy, blighting glance, bring bad luck, cantrip, charm, come hither look, commination, curse, damnation, denunciation,… …

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  • 68Excommunication —    An ancient discipline of the Church whereby a person for cause was cut off from all the privileges of the Church. This discipline has practically fallen into abeyance, people for the most part excommunicate themselves. In the English Prayer… …

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  • 69Penance —    In the early ages of the Church the commission of grievous error in life or doctrine was, punished by exclusion from the Communion of the Church; and in order to obtain readmission, offenders were obliged to submit to a prescribed course of… …

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  • 70condemnation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Censure Nouns condemnation, conviction, proscription, damnation, doom; death warrant, death sentence or penalty, capital punishment; attainder, attainture, attaintment; denunciation, commination;… …

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