What does "animadversion" mean?

Animadversion: Monition; warning. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.
  2. 3.Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

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