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Definition of Censorship
1. Noun. Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy.
Specialized synonyms: Military Censorship, National Censorship
Generic synonyms: Counterintelligence
2. Noun. Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances.
Generic synonyms: Deletion
Specialized synonyms: Bowdlerism, Comstockery
Derivative terms: Censor
Definition of Censorship
1. n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
Definition of Censorship
1. Noun. The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Censorship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Censorship
Literary usage of Censorship
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 Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Everywhere the books declared dangerous were cast into the fire—the simplest and
most natural execution of censorship. When at Ephesus, in consequence of ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"I hereby establish a censorship Board to be composed of representatives ...
And I hereby vest in said censorship Board the executive administration of the ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"The censorship in 1846, the Metropolitan of Bosnia passed over to the Old ...
The censorship, which received a complete code of regulations in 1828, ..."
4. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"The censorship. The Press under James I. and Charles I. ministers to perform
their own burial service in the parish churchyard ; and in populous towns the ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"censorship. censorship of the press was not the least effective function of the
Inquisition in arresting the development of the Spanish intellect. ..."
6. Limits of Tolerance: Freedom of Expression and the Public Debate in Chile by Sebastian Brett, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1998)
"The grounds entertained in the law for film censorship are extremely broad ...
censorship also extends to video cassettes and to films shown on television. ..."
7. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"censorship. New York Tribune July 22, 1917 Review section p3 censorship abroad.
... 1916 censorship and its effects: in England. Quarterly Review no. ..."
8. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"censorship State censorship, the denial of the fundamental right to ...
censorship prevents self-expression, the assertion and communication of an identity. ..."
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