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Definition of Animadverting
1. animadvert [v] - See also: animadvert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animadverting
Literary usage of Animadverting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor of Connecticut by Isaac William Stuart (1859)
"Washington .writes Trumbull respecting these, animadverting, in severe terms, on
their conduct. An admirable reply from Trumbull. Another letter of censure, ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... at nearly all the single gentlemen in turn, and with her frankness in openly
talking of her designs, and animadverting on their good or ill success. ..."
3. A Treatise on New Trial and Appellate Practice: Presenting and Illustrating ...by Thomas Carl Spelling by Thomas Carl Spelling (1903)
"Misconduct of court in animadverting upon conduct of counsel. § 49. Misconduct of
court in commenting upon testimony and witnesses during trial. § 50. ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... nnd of perceiving or animadverting things done successively here in the world.
But it will not follow from these and the like contradictions of mistaken ..."
5. How Shall I Govern My School?: Addressed to Young Teachers; and Also Adapted by Enoch Cobb Wines (1839)
"In speaking to your pupils of their faults, do not overlook their true source,
depravity of heart; yet in animadverting upon any particular offence, ..."
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