animadversion
[noun]
Synonyms: aspersion, obloquy, reflection, slam, slur, stricture

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Antonyms: commendation
Contrasted words: acclaim, extolling, laudation, praise, approbation, approval
Related Words: censure, criticism, reprehension, accusation, imputation, insinuation, captiousness, carping, caviling, faultfinding

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

animadversion noun. [,anɪmǝd'vǝ:ʃ(ǝ)n] M16.
[French, or Latin animadversio(n-), from animadvers- pa. ppl stem of animadvertere: see ANIMADVERT, -ION.]
1. Judicial punishment; a penal visitation. M16-M19.
■ A. Alison A power whose lightest measure of animadversion would be banishment.

2. Censure, reproof, blame. L16.
■ S. Johnson No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion.

3. A criticism; a (usu. censorious) comment. L16.
■ W. Styron His complaints grew louder and his animadversions more serious and cutting.

4. The action or faculty of observation. E17-L18.
■ M. Hale The due animadversion and inspection of their own Minds.
■ J. Glanvill In an infinite Life as God is, there can be no distraction, his animadversion necessarily being infinite.

5. A notice, a warning. M17-E18.
■ Clarendon They all knew Caesar's fate, by contemning, or neglecting such animadversions.

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