commination

• Mercy might have been showed to sinners, in gracious and free pardon of their sins, and dispensing with the punishment due to their persons, yet the Lord’s justice and faithfulness in that first commination might be wronged and disappointed by it, if no satisfaction should be made for such infinite offences, if the law were wholly made void both in the punishment, as also to the person. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• Doth it not call us to a particular consideration that thy blessed Son varies his form of commination, and aggravates it in the variation, when he says to the Jews (because they refused the light offered), You shall die in your sin_:[262] and then when they proceeded to farther disputations, and vexations, and temptations, he adds, You shall die in your sins_;[263] he multiplies the former expression to a plural. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• The Bishop appears now as if he were reading a new commination--to wit, "Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour; cursed is he that bowleth half volleys." —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• Sam revised his private commination service in order to include the elephant gun. —  Three Men and a Maid
• Even the bishops and abbots of Norman blood disregarded the commination, and remained staunch to Harold. —  Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms