Aggravation
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) Exaggerated representation.
(2): (n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
(3): (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; - used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
(4): (n.) Provocation; irritation.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
in ecclesiastical usage, is a term given
(1) to the threat to fulminate excommunication after three monitions to obey the Church. The aggravation may not be published by the minister without the order of the official.
(2.) The extreme penalty of the major excommunication (i e. the stoppage of all intercourse between the excommunicated party and the body of the faithful). The word in this sense has now no-use.
