anti-commentary
anti-commentary noun: a hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
Noun
anti-commentary (plural anti-commentaries)
- 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.2011, Eleni Kechagia, Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 80
- More comprehensive than any of these […] is the De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia of Bernardino Telesio: in one sense a commentary on the natural philosophical works of Aristotle, in another sense a rejection of the Philosopher – an anti-commentary, as it were.2018, Linda Deer Richardson, Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497–1558), →ISBN, page 144
Forms of anti-commentary
| plural | anti-commentaries |
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Origin of anti-commentary
From anti- + commentary.
Questions about anti-commentary
- What does anti-commentary mean?
- Anti-commentary means a hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
- What part of speech is anti-commentary?
- Anti-commentary is a noun.
- What is the plural of anti-commentary?
- The plural of anti-commentary is anti-commentaries.
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