Anti-commentary
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
"Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus."
Example
More examples"Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus."
Etymology
From anti- + commentary.
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