[A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion.
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Animadversion
//ˌænɪmædˈvɜːʒən//
Synonyms for "animadversion" (56 found)
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19 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- animadversió noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Finnish
2 entries- moite noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- nuhteet noun (criticism, a critical remark)
French
3 entries- blâme noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- critique noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- reprobation noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Hungarian
2 entries- kifakadás noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- rosszallás noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Italian
1 entries- animavversione noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Latin
1 entries- animadversio noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Portuguese
1 entries- animadversão noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Russian
4 entries- кри́тика noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- неодобре́ние noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- осужде́ние noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- порица́ние noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Spanish
2 entries- animadversión noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- reprobación noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Turkish
2 entries- eleştiri noun (criticism, a critical remark)
- kınama noun (criticism, a critical remark)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive.
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There is no need for us to be indignant. On the contrary we can now see that these animadversions of the Christian writers are the evidence of how and to what extent in the spread of Christianity over the world it had become fused with the Pagan cults previously existing.
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He was deceived; for justice hath also knowledge and animadversion over such as gather stubble (as the common saying is) or looke about for grape-seed.
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