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What is an animadversion?

What is an animadversion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (countable) A criticism, a critical remark.
  2. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being animadversive.
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But Mr. Motley comes in for his share of animadversion in Mr. Davis's letter.
Derrida and Foucault's whole deconstructive enterprise might be seen as an exercise in animadversion on the Western cultural process of translation.
He said, some people have had constructive reviews, but no really bad animadversion.
If the work is so daring as to merit public animadversion, the magistrate summons the printer, who either stands mute or names the author.
The same undercurrent of jealousy operates in our reception of animadversion.
I have carefully abstained from casting a single reflection or animadversion of my own.

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