Anti-commentary

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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