Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is critical beyond measure or reason; an over-rigid critic; a captious censor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.
- adjective Hypercritical.
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- noun A carping or unduly censorious critic.
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Examples
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I read the address in no unfriendly or hypercritic spirit, for none rejoice more than I in whatsoever contributes, even a little, to the luster of the Lone Star.
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Methinks the hypercritic might say there should not be two words of the same spelling and sound and meaning, to make the rhyme, as in the lines ending with meet. '
Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Emma Marshall 1864
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He plays the hypercritic on himself, and starves his genius to death from a needless apprehension of a plethora.
Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804
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Beddoes — a hypercritic of the Darwin [4] school, who writes bad verses himself, & of course criticises every body all others severely.
Letter 195 1797
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Salomon Seniler, an unbelieving hypercritic, in this respect hold an undesirable pre-eminence, his "Historiæ eccles. selecta capita" (3 vols.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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[Footnote: A hypercritic might contend that Jaques was not the hero of
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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A hypercritic might contend that Jaques was not the hero of "As You Like
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
ruzuzu commented on the word hypercritic
"One who is critical beyond measure or reason; an over-rigid critic; a captious censor."
--Century Dictionary
December 23, 2010