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animadvert

[an-uh-mad-vurt] / ˌæn ə mædˈvɜrt /








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There is no need to animadvert to the deeds of that day, which shall resound, for weal or woe, as long as this terrestrial globe has habitation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

I have heard others’ stories and recorded them in these pages; there is no need to animadvert to my own.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But what occasion is there to animadvert on the opinions of individuals, when we may observe whole nations to fall into all sorts of errors?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge

What! was such a fellow as Bertram, a boy just fresh from college, to animadvert upon and condemn the practice of the whole bar of England?

From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

Just as moralists have often animadverted upon the tendency to live in the future, so I would animadvert upon the tendency to live in the past.

From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett




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