What's the difference between commination and denunciation?

Commination


Definition:

  • (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
  • (n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These were predominantly centered in the inferior disc and were more commin in white women.
  • (2) Measurement of COHb by this method in rats exposed to 525, 900, 1800 and 2400 ppm CO produces higher values than those obtained with the 1965 spectrophotometric method of Commins and Lawther.
  • (3) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
  • (4) Although it was determined that the development of IM during college years was statistically less commin in tonsillectomized students, the difference was not inordinately large and probably had no significant biologic meaning.
  • (5) Only the five wavelength method of Commins & Lawther (1965) Brit.
  • (6) In the late 1870s, Emary and his son left Regent Street and handed Aquascutum over to Scantlebury & Commin.
  • (7) The garage personnel replied to a questionnaire and underwent a brief clinical examination including taking of digital blood samples for measurement of hematocrit and carboxyhemoglobin level by the method of COMMINS and LAWTHER as modified by BUCHWALD.
  • (8) Dermal hypersensitivity, including erythema nodosum and erythema multiforme, was commin in patients whose clinical course was uncomplicated.
  • (9) The special comminication problems of deaf people may lead to serious misunderstandings, particularly during a medical evaluation.
  • (10) Variations on the method of Commins and Lawther, as well as COHb values available in the literature for animals exposed to CO, are reviewed briefly.
  • (11) Excessive weight loss and irritability are commin in these infants.
  • (12) The determination of the particulate acidity by the Commins method has been evaluated in order to examine the influence of sampling conditions on the results of the measurements.
  • (13) Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.

Denunciation


Definition:

  • (n.) Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
  • (n.) The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
  • (n.) That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the west has little to offer other than statements of support for Georgia coupled with denunciations of Russian ruthlessness.
  • (2) At last year’s 36th anniversary of the taking of the embassy hostages, which featured criticism of the Rouhani administration as well as denunciations of the United States as the “Great Satan”, Raeisi announced that the intelligence and security forces had “identified and cracked down on a network of penetration in media and cyberspace, and detained spies and writers hired by Americans”.
  • (3) The study says that although migrants will not vote as a bloc, previous patterns suggest they are likely to prefer parties viewed as positive about race equality and immigration – and are likely to turn their back on those engaged in hostile denunciations of migrants.
  • (4) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
  • (5) Pope Francis has spoken out against those who use religion as a pretext for violence and oppression, in his clearest denunciation yet of the Islamic state militants murdering their way across Syria and Iraq.
  • (6) They may decide just to keep her under wraps indefinitely until she, too, succumbs to either mental illness or physical illness.” He said Beijing had prevented Liu from travelling and making a final denunciation of its authoritarian rule to avoid “an enormous public relations disaster”.
  • (7) With it was a covering letter from a senior MI5 officer, who explained that “we had obtained sight, by secret and delicate means, of a long and reasoned denunciation of the leadership of the British Communist party by one of their best-known intellectuals”, and asking that it not be used without being paraphrased.
  • (8) Article 58 allows any party to denounce the convention on six months' notice, although any breaches of the convention committed before denunciation will still be liable to review by the human rights court in Strasbourg.
  • (9) Other purported former comrades made denunciations on Facebook pages such as " Bowe Bergdahl is not a hero ”, and an online petition to the White House demanding a court martial garnered more than 2,900 signatures.
  • (10) However no common duty to denunciation of secure or supposed incorrect treatments is established.
  • (11) Yet despite official denunciation and celebration of diversity, racism as a concept in this country endures, adapting and readapting, chameleon-like to the changing social and political times.
  • (12) A Guardian leader said his speech was classic Dacre: "a white-knuckle, sometimes sulphurous denunciation of anyone he perceives to be the enemy of the free press he cherishes and so resolutely defends.
  • (13) Shavit is a hawk on the Iranian nuclear threat, for example, but fierce in his denunciation of the post-1967 occupation.
  • (14) Right now, Iran's denunciation of Saudi interference and provocative offer to mediate stems primarily from a humanitarian concern; the conflict also provides Tehran with an opportunity to flex its muscles and repair some of the post-election damage inflicted to its credibility and axis of influence in the region.
  • (15) He was following the Arab League secretary general’s denunciation of the way in which Iran in particular was exploiting the Sunni-Shia divide, and using religion for political purposes.
  • (16) In June 1956, for instance, during the regular editorial lunch at the Waldorf Hotel, Crankshaw, not revealing his source, mentioned that he had acquired a transcript of Khrushchev’s secret denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Communist party congress.
  • (17) Mal Brough apologises for 60 Minutes claim, but denies he misled parliament Read more Malcolm Turnbull faced fresh questions about his political judgment and rebuffed calls to sack Brough from the ministry, saying there had been no new developments and “guilt or innocence is not determined by public denunciation”.
  • (18) And this is why Labour’s leaders have been obliged to have their own deficit plan, simply to get a hearing from interviewers and commentators oblivious to Keynes’s excoriating denunciation of similar primitive and failing policies in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • (19) The Chinese foreign office issued (for them) a sharply worded denunciation of the US attack on the Pakistani border post.
  • (20) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.