anti-commentary
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.13 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
Example Sentences
- "Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus."
- "More comprehensive than any of these […] is the De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia of Bernardino Telesio: in one sense a commentary on the natural philosophical works of Aristotle, in another sense a rejection of the Philosopher – an anti-commentary, as it were."
- "The first argues that sacred signs ordained by God have always been corrupted by men, the second, called ‘our litil treatise of ye Messe’, is an anti-commentary on the Mass and vestments, and the third a commentary on the Reformed liturgy."
- "The Herculaneum papyri preserve fragments of two other works of his: the anticommentaries “Against Plato’s Euthydemus” (PHerc. 1032) and “Against Plato’s Lysis” (PHerc. 208)."
Etymology
From anti- + commentary.