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Objurgation vs Animadversion - What's the difference?

objurgation | animadversion |

As nouns the difference between objurgation and animadversion

is that objurgation is strong rebuke; strong scolding while animadversion is animosity.

objurgation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • strong rebuke; strong scolding

    • Related terms

    * objurgate * objurgative

    Quotations

    1957': a repulsive yelping streaked with Arabic '''objurgations — Lawrence Durrell, ''Justine , p.91 (Faber)

    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.