Animadversion vs Reprimand - What's the difference?
animadversion | reprimand | Related terms |
(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:
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
Animadversion is a related term of reprimand.
As nouns the difference between animadversion and reprimand
is that animadversion is animosity while reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.As a verb reprimand is
to reprove in a formal or official way.animadversion
English
Noun
(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.
reprimand
English
Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: