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Webster 1913 Edition
Animadversion
Anˊi-mad-ver′sion
,Noun.
1.
The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
[Obs.]
The soul is the sole percipient which hath
animadversion
and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.
2.
Monition; warning.
[Obs.]
Clarendon.
3.
Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp
animadversions
. Clarendon.
4.
Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.
[Archaic]
“Divine animadversions.” Wesley.
Syn. – Stricture; criticism; censure; reproof; blame; comment.
Webster 1828 Edition
Animadversion
ANIMADVER'SION
,Noun.
Remarks by way of censure or criticism; reproof; blame. It may sometimes be used for punishment, or punishment may be implied in the word, but this is not common. In an ecclesiastical sense, it differs from censure, says Ayliffe; censure, respecting spiritual punishment, and animadversion, a temporal one. Glanville uses the word in the sense of perception, but this use is not authorized.
Definition 2024
animadversion
animadversion
See also: animadversión
English
Noun
animadversion (plural animadversions)
- (countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
- 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, January 1827:
- [A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion.
- 1895, Elias Lyman Magoon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, p. 357:
- 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.
- 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, January 1827:
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.
- 1603, (translator unknown), Michel de Montaigne (author), Essayes, Volumes 5-6, p. 3-4:
- 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.
- 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 67, The Executive Department:
- 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.
- 1603, (translator unknown), Michel de Montaigne (author), Essayes, Volumes 5-6, p. 3-4:
Translations
criticism, a critical remark
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