reaggraˈvation Eccl.
[ad. med.L. reaggravātio; cf. obs. F. réaggravation (15th c.; the usual word is réaggrave). See prec. and aggravation 3.]
The second warning given to a person before final excommunication.
| 1611 Cotgr., Reaggravation, a reaggrauation; and (particularly) the last, and most direfull excommunication of offendors. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Before they proceed to fulminate the last excommunication, they publish an aggravation, and a re-aggravation. 1864 [see aggravation 3]. |