commandment

[ kuh-mand-muhnt, -mahnd- ]
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noun
  1. a command or mandate.

  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) any of the Ten Commandments.

  1. the act or power of commanding.

Origin of commandment

1
1200–50; Middle English com(m)and(e)ment<Anglo-French, Old French com(m)andement.See command, -ment

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How to use commandment in a sentence

  • A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

  • He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory.

  • Of the Ten Commandments, seven are designed as defences of the possessions and prerogatives of God and the property-owner.

    God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
  • God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.

  • The Ten Commandments are of perpetual obligation on all; and so is every moral precept included in them.

British Dictionary definitions for commandment

commandment

/ (kəˈmɑːndmənt) /


noun
  1. a divine command, esp one of the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament

  2. literary any command

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