animadversiveness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From animadversive + -ness.
Noun
[edit]animadversiveness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being animadversive.
- 1827, “Letter VI.”, in Demetrius Wyseman, editor, The Quality Papers, volume I, London: William Marsh, […]; and T. and J. Allman, […], page 236:
- [A]nd, better than all—better than the prism-tion of Wellintown—the narrow-mouthishness of Bathos—the animadversiveness of Whistmoreland—and the digastic honesty of Mr. Peile—we have got rid of John Lord Weldon’s ears!!!
- 1889 November 29, “Too Much Language. Brown’s Electro-Phonographic Dictionary---Some of its Advantages.”, in Nemaha County Spectator[1], volume VII, number 51, Wetmore, Kan.:
- I think that the old party who in my childhood used to officiate at our hog-killings as First Royal fat-rendering mendicant must have had a presentiment of what Noah’s book was to contain, from the fact that she remarked to me once that my animadversiveness was remarkable for a child.
- 1892 March 3, “A Bad Practice”, in St. Paul Daily Globe, volume XIV, number 63, Saint Paul, Minn., page 4:
- Like everybody who tries to do something he is not trained for, they cause a good deal of trouble by their interference, sometimes to themselves, and sometimes, as in the instance under consideration, to innocent people, who are wounded by this animadversiveness on their conduct.
- 1898, Viktor Rydberg, “Nero and His Mistress”, in Ottilia von Düben, transl., Roman Legends about the Apostles Paul and Peter, London: Elliot Stock, page 62:
- f it were possible to be a true artist or only a critic without ideality and heart—if great animadversiveness and knowledge of art, refined taste and improved technical ability, were sufficient—then the Emperor Nero had been what he prided himself on being.