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Definition of Censure

1. Noun. Harsh criticism or disapproval.

2. Verb. Rebuke formally.

3. Noun. The state of being excommunicated.

Definition of Censure

1. n. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

2. v. i. To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

3. v. i. To judge.

Definition of Censure

1. Noun. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension. ¹

2. Noun. An official reprimand. ¹

3. Noun. The state of excommunication. ¹

4. Verb. to criticize harshly ¹

5. Verb. to formally rebuke ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Censure

1. to criticize severely [v -SURED, -SURING, -SURES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Censure

censorious censoriously censoriousness censorless censors censorship censorships censorware censour censours

censual censurability censurable censurableness censurably censure (current term) censured censureless censurer censurers

censures censuring census taker censused censusing cent cent- centage

Literary usage of Censure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"Absolution from a censure in the external forum is valid also for the internal; if a person has been absolved in the internal forum, he may act as if he had ..."

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"His censure was directed against a breach of morality, against an act which no man ... The man who appropriated this censure to himself is evidently and ..."

3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"... of censure was modified accordingly.* For the resolution so modified one member then submitted a substitute, and another a further modification, ..."

4. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"The chief speakers in favor of censure were Thomas W. Cobb [Ga. ... Those opposing censure were John Holmes [Mass.], Richard M. Johnson [Ky. ..."

5. The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, James Solas Dodd (1795)
"... privileged to commit without censure; and not in reviling the persons or misrepresenting the actions of superiors. The former may with great propriety ..."

6. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1821)
"S:ts him in his censure, and calls him the Cerberus of the uses. Socrates, whom all the world so much magnified, is, by Lactantius and Theodoret, ..."

7. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1858)
"Their censure of Wilson was the only formal proceeding, ecclesiastical or civil, which had yet been had in the progress of the controversy; for the meeting ..."

8. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"... and the Bank Terminates Its Existence as a National Institution—The Senate censures the President for His Action—Debate on the Resolution of censure: in ..."

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