Animadvert vs Remark - What's the difference?
animadvert | remark | Synonyms |
(obsolete) To consider.
* 1726 , Nicholas Amhurst, Terræ-Filius , :
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , XV.v:
(archaic, legal, intransitive) To turn judicial attention (to); to punish or criticise.
To criticise, censure.
Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
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, title= To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to point out.
* Ford
* Milton
To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
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To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause
Animadvert is a synonym of remark.
As verbs the difference between animadvert and remark
is that animadvert is (obsolete|intransitive) to consider while remark is to make a remark or remarks; to comment or remark can be to mark again (a piece of work).As a noun remark is
act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation or remark can be a mark that replaces another mark.animadvert
English
Verb
(en verb)- …that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret History…
- he had probably committed violence with his hands, had not the parson interposed, saying, "For heaven's sake, sir, animadvert that you are in the house of a great lady."
remark
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) remarquer, from ; see mark.Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Verb
(en verb)- Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief.
- His manacles remark him; there he sits.
- He remarked that it was time to go.