单词 | verbal critic |
释义 | > as lemmasverbal critic verbal critic n. a critic who focuses on or only analyses the words used to express or convey something; spec. a textual critic; cf. verbal criticism n.Sometimes with depreciative connotations of pedantry. ΚΠ 1656 R. Short Περι Ψυχροποσιας Pref. sig. (a)3 Plato understood Homer (not as poor verbal Criticks do in these dayes). 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 17 Neglect the Rules each Verbal Critick lays, For not to know some Trifles, is a Praise. 1855 F. A. Paley Æschylus (1861) Pref. p. xxviii Hermann, the leader of the verbal-critics. 1906 PMLA 21 App. xxviii. Peabody and White, textual and verbal critics. 2011 P. Holbrook in M. T. Burnett et al. Edinb. Compan. Shakespeare & Arts ii. 41 Shakespeare makes the pompous, but also sinister, court counsellor Polonius a captious verbal critic. < as lemmas |
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