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Condemnation vs Animadversion - What's the difference?

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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

English

Noun

  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * (act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong) praise * (act of judicially adjudging guilty) acquittal * (ground or reason of condemning) acquittal, justification

    animadversion

    English

    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.