Condemnation vs Animadversion - What's the difference?
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The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
The state of being condemned.
The ground or reason of condemning.
The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.
(countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , January 1827:
* 1895 , Elias Lyman Magoon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers , p. 357:
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.
* 1603 , (translator unknown), (author), Essayes , Volumes 5-6?, p. 3-4:
* 1788 , , Federalist No. 67, The Executive Department:
Condemnation is a related term of animadversion.
As nouns the difference between condemnation and animadversion
is that condemnation is the act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation while animadversion is animosity.condemnation
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* (act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong) praise * (act of judicially adjudging guilty) acquittal * (ground or reason of condemning) acquittal, justificationanimadversion
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(en noun)- [A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion .
- 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.
- 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.
- Nor have I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers.