Word Meanings - HYPERCRITICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.

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• ZOILISM
  Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction. Bring candid eyes the perusal of men's works, and let not Zoilism or detraction blast well-intended labors. Sir T. Browne.
• RIGORIST
  One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
• RIGOROUS
  1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• UNJUSTICE
  Want of justice; injustice. Hales.
• SEVERITY
  The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: -- Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age,
• RIGOR
  A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceeding a fever. Rigor caloris , a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50ºC. -- Rigor
• CRITICISM
  1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements
• RIGORISM
  1. Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity. 2. Severity, as of style, or the like. Jefferson.
• UNJUST
  1. Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge. 2. Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an
• OVERRIGOROUS
  Too rigorous; harsh.
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• PERIGORD PIE
  A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.
• NEOCRITICISM
  The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
• ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
  The art of interpreting dreams.
• FRIGORIFIC; FRIGORIFICAL
  Causing cold; producing or generating cold. Quincy.
• HIGHER CRITICISM
  Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism. The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts