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animadversions

animadversions is the plural of animadversion.

Meaning of animadversion

Noun

animadversion (countable and uncountable, plural animadversions)

  1. (countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
    • [A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion.January 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
  2. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.
    • 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.1603, (translator unknown), Essayes, volumes 5-6, translation of original by Michel de Montaigne, pages 3–4

Questions about animadversions

What is animadversions the plural of?
Animadversions is the plural of animadversion.

Words near animadversions in the dictionary

  1. animable
  2. animacies
  3. animacy
  4. animadversion
  5. animadversional
  6. animadversions
  7. animadversive
  8. animadversiveness
  9. animadvert
  10. animadverted
  11. animadvertence

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