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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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"Animadversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... our priests; who not only very punctually and successfully conformed to their instructions on this head, but very often in the heat of their zeal so much exceeded them, as to draw on themselves the animadversion of the English government. This answered a double end, of hindering that nation from finding those advantages in this country, by the prospect of which it had been tempted to settle in it, and of engaging it to consider Acadia itself, as something not material ...

— An Account Of The Customs And Manners Of The Micmakis And Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent On The Government Of Cape-Breton • Antoine Simon Maillard

... accumulation of difficulties to combat, as Lord Ellenborough; few, if any, of his predecessors have had their actions, their motives, and even their words, exposed to such an unsparing measure of malicious animadversion and wilful misconstruction; yet none have passed so triumphantly through the ordeal of experience. Many of his measures may now be judged of by their fruits; and those of the Calcutta press who were loudest in their cavils, compelled to admit the success ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

Words linked to "Animadversion" : disapprobation, interdict, animadvert