Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-I-MAD-VER'SION
AN-IM-AD-VERS'ALAN-I-MAD-VER'SIVE
AN-I-MAD-VER'SION, n. [L. animadversio.]
Remarks by way of censure or criticism; reproof; blame. It may sometimes be used for punishment, or punishment may be implied in the word, but this is not common. In an ecclesiastical sense, it differs from censure, says Ayliffe; censure, respecting spiritual punishment, and animadversion, a temporal one. Glanville uses the word in the sense of perception, but this use is not authorized.
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