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noun

Comment n.

A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk. "Their lavish comment when her name was named."

A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition. "All the volumes of philosophy, With all their comments."

verb

Comment v. t. To comment on. (Archaic.)

Comment v. i. (past & past part. commented; pres. part. commenting) To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; often followed by on or upon. "A physician to comment on your malady." "Critics... proceed to comment on him." "I must translate and comment."

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"Comment" Quotes from Famous Books

... particulars. It was not to her a source of joy, or sympathy, or solace. She foresaw for her child only a future of degradation. Having a strong, clear mind, without any imagination, she believed that she beheld an inevitable doom. The tart remark and the contemptuous comment on her part, elicited, on the other, all the irritability of the poetic idiosyncrasy. After frantic ebullitions, for which, when the circumstances were analysed by an ordinary mind, there seemed no sufficient cause, my grandfather always interfered to soothe with good-tempered ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... minute and careful inspection, that the Reports of their members during the previous year showed, on the whole, that good progress continued to be made in the mode of managing "these large and daily increasing institutions," and they add, "although in some instances it has been our duty to comment on shortcomings and cases of neglect, we have generally been able to bear testimony to the skill and zeal evinced by the medical superintendents in the execution of their very grave and difficult duties."[196] ...

— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... seemed to herself to be watching herself after a long degringolade, which had brought her, not to the gutter, but to the smart restaurant, the smart music-hall, the smart night club; the smart everything else that is beyond the borderland of even a lax society. This was Miss Schley's comment upon her. The sting of it lay in this fact, that it followed immediately upon the heels of the unpleasant scene at Arkell House. Otherwise, she thought it would not have troubled her. Now it did trouble her. She felt not only indignant with Miss Schley. She felt also secretly distressed ...

— The Woman With The Fan • Robert Hichens

... of the differences between ancient passion and modern love. In Mademoiselle de Maupin, he makes this comment on the ancient love-poems: ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... phrase or two, it might be framed to meet new exigencies, and give expression to the lively imagination of ingenious members of Parliament. It would be curious to collect an account of the variety of shapes it assumed, and to comment on the different occasions which gave rise to these different developments. A long history of persecuting frenzy might thus be condensed into a commentary of a comparatively few pages. Even at the so-called Catholic Emancipation it was not abolished; on the contrary, it was sacredly preserved, ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

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