intermination

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English

Etymology

Latin interminatio.

Noun

intermination (plural interminations)

  1. (obsolete) A menace or threat.
    • 1651, Jer Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. , 2nd edition, London: Francis Ashe , →OCLC:
      The terrors of the law were the intermination of curses upon all those that ever broke any of the least commandments

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