Meaning of Animadversion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A criticism, a critical remark.
   countable
2. The state or characteristic of being animadversive.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion.”

“While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive.”

“There is no need⟳ for us to be indignant. On the contrary we can now see⟳ that these animadversions of the Christian writers are the evidence of how and to what extent in the spread⟳ of Christianity over the world it had become⟳ fused with the Pagan cults previously existing.”

“He was deceived; for justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for grape-seed.”

“Nor have⟳ I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow⟳ myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers.”

“In a government like⟳ ours more especially should all public acts be, as far as practicable, simple, undisguised, and intelligible, that they may become⟳ fit subjects for the approbation to animadversion of the people.”

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