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Animadversion

noun
1.
Harsh criticism or disapproval.  Synonym: censure.





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"Animadversion" Quotes from Famous Books



... reflecting people at the North would adopt Scriptural views on that point, peace would soon ensue; for all the discussions of the supposed or real evils in slavery, which would then be the sole objects of animadversion, would elicit truth, and tend to good. If the South felt that the North were truly her friend, they would both be found cooperating for the improvement and elevation of the colored race. Every form of oppression and selfishness would feel the withering rebuke of a just ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams
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... decline subscribing, even at the price of deprivation; and prodigious devastations were made by the courtiers on the property of the church. To perform or assist at the performance of the mass was also rendered highly penal. But no dread of legal animadversion was capable of deterring the lady Mary from the observance of this essential rite of her religion; and finding herself and her household exposed to serious inconveniences on account of their infraction of the new statute, she applied for protection to her potent kinsman the emperor Charles V., who ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
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Words linked to "Animadversion" :   censure, condemnation, animadvert, disapprobation, interdict


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