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fault-finding (n.)
[fault-finding 词源字典]
1620s, from verbal phrase
find fault (with)
(late 14c.); see
fault
(n.) +
find
(v.). Related:
Fault-finder
(1560s).
[fault-finding etymology, fault-finding origin, 英语词源]
animadverter
"A person who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder; an unfavourable critic or commentator", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in John Milton (1608–1674), poet and polemicist. From animadvert + -er.