hypercritic
English
Alternative forms
- hypercritick (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)ˈkɹɪtɪk/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
hypercritic (plural hypercritics)
- A carping or unduly censorious critic.
- 1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, page 22:
- 'Tis worth our conſideration, a little to examine how much theſe Hypercritiques of Engliſh Poetry, differ from the opinion of the Greek and Latine Judges of Antiquity: […]
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