Threatenings are words or actions that indicate possible harm or danger. Antonyms for this word include reassurance, comfort, and security. Reassurance signifies the act of comforting someone and removing their fears by providing them with assurance. Comfort means to bring relief or solace to a person in distress, while security denotes freedom from harm or danger. Other antonyms for threatenings include encouragement, hope, and peace. Encouragement includes words or actions that motivate and inspire someone to continue working towards their goals or overcome difficulties. Hope signifies a sense of optimism and confidence in the future, while peace denotes the absence of conflict or disturbance.

What are the antonyms for Threatenings?

• n.

  • commination
  • compliment
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  • praise
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Famous quotes with Threatenings

• Selden asserts, and in my opinion with great justice, that all these whimsical transpositions of dignity are derived from the ancient Saturnalia, or Feasts of Saturn, when the masters waited upon their servants, who were honoured with mock titles, and permitted to assume the state and deportment of their lords. These fooleries were exceedingly popular, and continued to be practised long after the establishment of Christianity, in defiance of the threatenings and the remonstrances of the clergy, who, finding it impossible to divert the stream of vulgar prejudice permitted them to be exercised, but changed the primitive object of devotion; so that the same unhallowed orgies, which had disgraced the worship of a heathen deity, were dedicated, as it was called, to the service of the true God, and sanctioned by the appellation of a Christian institution. From this polluted stock branched out variety of unseemly and immoral sports; but none of them more daringly impious and outrageous to common sense, than the Festival of Fools, in which the most sacred rites and ceremonies of the church were turned into ridicule, and the ecclesiastics themselves participated in the abominable profanations.

  Joseph Strutt
• ‘Sir, we are trying to work because we are having to take the examination in a very brief time from now, but the younger boys are not realizing the importance of our labours and they are creating veritable pandemoniums while we are immersed in our studies. To us who are their lawful and appointed superiors they are giving overmuch insolence, nor are they sufficiently overawed by our frequent threatenings. I would be taking it, sir, as inestimable favour if you would deliver harsh words and verbal punishing to them all, sir, especially the Malay boys, who are severely lacking in due respectfulness and incorrigible to discipline also.’

  Anthony Burgess

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