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noun

Animadversion n.

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."

Monition; warning. (Obs.)

Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. "He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions."

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. (Archaic) "Divine animadversions."

Synonyms: Stricture; criticism; censure; reproof; blame; comment.

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Etymology of 'Animadversion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... from Beaumont to Moisselles, began to carp and criticize with such eagerness that a few sparks of the conflagration fell into the Moreau household. For four years the Reyberts, cut dead by the handsome Estelle, found themselves the objects of so much animadversion on the part of the adherents of the Moreaus that their position at Presles would not have been endurable without the thought of vengeance which had, so far, ...

— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac

... Scotchwomen, who thought little of walking and carrying great baskets of butter and eggs the three or four miles that lay between North Gore and the village, found matter for contemptuous animadversion in the glimpses they got of their neighbours' way of life, and spoke scornfully to each other of the useless "Yankee" wives, who were content to bide within doors while their husbands did not only the legitimate field-work, but the work of the garden, and even the milking of the cows as ...

— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson

... sufficiently supported; some I have rejected without mention, as evidently erroneous; some I have left in the notes without censure or approbation, as resting in equipoise between objection and defence; and some, which seemed specious but not right, I have inserted with a subsequent animadversion. ...

— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith

... a doubt whether he was really anxious to bring the war to an immediate conclusion."[16] Early in November, Count D'Estaing, with the French squadron, quitted the port of Boston and sailed for the West Indies, there to pursue exclusively French objects. "Deep was the disappointment and loud the animadversion of the Americans in the Northern provinces. They had formed the most sanguine hopes from the French alliance. They had found that alliance as yet ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson

... Johnson published an octavo volume of more than four hundred pages, entitled, "Grammatical Commentaries; being an Apparatus to a New National Grammar: by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies and defects of Lily's System now in use." This is a work of great acuteness, labour, and learning; and might be of signal use to any one who should undertake to prepare a ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

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