Noun

(en noun)

(countable) A criticism, a critical remark.

* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , January 1827:

[A] misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion .

* 1895 , Elias Lyman Magoon, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers , p. 357:

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.

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.

* 1603 , (translator unknown), (author), Essayes , Volumes 5-6?, p. 3-4:

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.

* 1788 , , Federalist No. 67, The Executive Department:

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.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.

The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).

Something, such as an image, that is reflected.

(senseid) Careful thought or consideration.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}

An implied criticism.

(label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.