animadversion

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The keeping of pet animals here, as in England, was a common fault and one against which Rigaud’s animadversions were singularly unsuccessful.

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But at times some extremely artless animadversions are heard that almost nonplus us.

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As to Raymond, the complete silence preserved with respect to him was more significant than could have been the severest animadversions.

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And curious it is to note that the foibles which he selects for animadversion are precisely those which form the staple of satire against women at the present time.

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Few Roman Catholic practices have excited more animadversion than the "vain repetition" of the worship of the Rosary.

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