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Example sentences for "animadversion"

Lexicographically close words:
anigh; anile; anilin; aniline; anima; animadversions; animadvert; animadverted; animadverting; animae
  1. Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.

  2. Your Animadversion upon this Insolence would be a great favour to, Sir, Your most humble servant, S.

  3. Perhaps I deserved this check; for it was rather presumptuous in me, an entire stranger, to express any doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil[1158].

  4. Perhaps all this might have escaped animadversion but for the personal enmity and jealousy of Charles of Calabria's chancellor, the Bishop of Aversa, and of Dino del Garbo, a renowned doctor of philosophy, esteemed the best physician in Italy.

  5. It was doubtless the pretentiousness of the young scholar which provoked enmity leading to animadversion on his orthodoxy, and it was not difficult in so vast an array of conclusions to find some thirteen which savored of heresy.

  6. All this might have escaped animadversion had not his ambition led him to extend his dominions at the expense of papal territory.

  7. It must be so in the nature of things; there is indeed an animadversion which implies a condemnation of the author; but there is another which means not much more than the "piè legendum" written against passages in the Fathers.

  8. Mr. Adams then proceeds to reply to all the charges brought against him by Alexander Smyth, analyzing and explaining every vote which he had made the subject of animadversion fully and successfully.

  9. The censors derive their power of removing a senator from those of Rome, the government of the ballot from those of Venice, and that of animadversion upon the ambitious, or canvass for magistracy, from both.

  10. Considerable animadversion was excited in the political circles by the fulfilment of this convention.

  11. This was a topic which had excited severe animadversion in parliament, as well as on the part of the public press; but it does not appear that government had anything to do with it, or that there were any papers to be produced.

  12. A Roman Catholic archdeacon, named Laffan, at a public meeting in Cashel, had made a very inflammatory speech, which had excited the indignation of the public, and was the subject of animadversion in parliament.

  13. This exhibition of narrow-minded bigotry on the part of the Toronto press excited (rather unexpectedly to them, no doubt) great surprise and severe animadversion from many quarters.

  14. His ready concurrence in their animadversion on Mompesson and Michell, delinquents who had acted at least with the connivance of government, and in the abolition of monopolies, seemed to remove all discontent.

  15. And instances were quoted of animadversion or speeches made in parliament.

  16. IN addition to her mother's implacable wrath and unceasing animadversion Mary found she was looked upon as a sort of alarming character by the whole family.

  17. And here, in justice to the lady, it must be owned that, for once, she had some grounds for animadversion in the dress and appearance of the Misses Douglas.

  18. Derby lotteries, and, in fact, all speculations on the turf or Stock Exchange, are open to quite as much animadversion as the Christmas lotteries for a little pig or an aged goose, which it appears are to be suppressed in future.

  19. Apparently this violation of the Clementine rule of forty years led to some animadversion and, in the commission of Valdes, in 1547, there is no allusion to age.

  20. Tippling was the subject of occasional animadversion by the various governments, though there seemed to be little sentiment against it until the opening of the following century.

  21. Johnson's animadversion was uttered in such a manner, that Dr.

  22. Since the first edition of this work was published, animal magnetism has become the subject of much controversy and animadversion in London and various parts of the empire.

  23. He admonished the ecclesiastics and monks not to frequent the houses of widows and virgins; and menaced their disobedience with the animadversion of the civil judge.

  24. Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.

  25. But this remark is followed by a sarcastic animadversion upon Le Clerc’s ignorance of Greek metres, and by the severe assertion, that “by an absolute system of terror, he made himself a despot in the republic of letters.

  26. Perhaps I deserved this check; for it was rather presumptuous in me, an entire stranger, to express any doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil.

  27. Even Mrs. Thrale did not escape his friendly animadversion at times.


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    Other words:
    animadversion; aspersion; backbiting; calumny; carping; cavil; comment; contumely; criticism; disparagement; exception; flak; hit; imputation; innuendo; insinuation; knock; nagging; niggling; nit; obloquy; pestering; quibble; quibbling; rap; reflection; slam; stricture; swipe