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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comminate.

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Examples

  • Anita is disturbed but Michael comminates that he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus even if she should practise a pious fraud during affrication which, from experience, she knows (according to Wadding), to be leading to nullity.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "Anita is disturbed, but Michael comminates that he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus even if she should practice a pious fraud during affrication, which, from experience, she knows (according to Wadding) to be leading to nullity."

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • "Anita is disturbed, but Michael comminates that he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus even if she should practice a pious fraud during affrication, which, from experience, she knows (according to Wadding) to be leading to nullity."

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Gronow, if he comminates his neighbor's congregation, is the affectionate father of his own.

    The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Gronow, if he comminates his neighbor’s congregation, is the affectionate father of his own.

    Our Street 2006

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