animadversiveness

English

Etymology

From animadversive +‎ -ness.

Noun

animadversiveness (uncountable)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• animadversion