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Censure   /sˈɛnʃər/   Listen
noun
Censure  n.  
1.
Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. (Obs.) "Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment."
2.
The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. "Both the censure and the praise were merited."
3.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. "Excommunication or other censure of the church."
Synonyms: Blame; reproof; condemnation; reprobation; disapproval; disapprobation; reprehension; animadversion; reprimand; reflection; dispraise; abuse.


verb
Censure  v. i.  (past & past part. censured; pres. part. censuring)  
1.
To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. (Obs.) "Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer."
2.
To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of. "I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty."
3.
To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
Synonyms: To blame; reprove; rebuke; condemn; reprehend; reprimand.


Censure  v. i.  To judge. (Obs.)





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"Censure" Quotes from Famous Books



... legislators, in this body of penal laws, was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in the community: they constantly invaded the domain of conscience, and there was scarcely a sin which they did not subject to magisterial censure. The reader is aware of the rigor with which these laws punished rape and adultery; intercourse between unmarried persons was likewise severely repressed. The judge was empowered to inflict a pecuniary ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... he had been informed that I was worthless, and must, in all probability, be dismissed. "But," said the new master, "I shall judge you by your own merits." From that time to the day on which I left the service, I never heard a word of censure, nor had many months passed before I found that my services were valued. Before a year was over, I had acquired the character of a thoroughly good ...
— Autobiography of Anthony Trollope • Anthony Trollope
... could call him off he had crushed Lakor into a jelly with a single blow of one mighty paw, and had literally torn the other thern to ribbons; yet when I spoke to him sharply he cowed sheepishly as though he had done a thing to deserve censure and chastisement. ...
— Warlord of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... him an act of rashness; but when it is considered that in one of these predatory wars, he has probably been deprived of his child, or his nearest relation, his situation will rather call for pity than censure. The poor sufferer, urged on by the feelings of domestic or paternal attachment, and the ardour of revenge, conceals himself among the bushes, until some young or unarmed person passes by. He then, tiger-like, springs upon his prey; drags his victim into the thicket, and in the ...
— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park
... have put the essential facts before the public in such a way that every fair-minded citizen can easily form his own opinion. From it you will see that the main result of the Medical Officer's proposals—apart from their constituting a vote of censure on the leading men of the town—would be to saddle the ratepayers with an unnecessary expenditure of at ...
— An Enemy of the People • Henrik Ibsen


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