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Definition of Censures
1. censure [v] - See also: censure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Censures
Literary usage of Censures
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)
"Although censures are medicinal punishments and are destined to overcome contumacy,
they do not cease at once upon repentance. ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"But then if it be enquired whether it be lawful for the spiritual power by
spiritual censures to punish those actions which the civil power permits; ..."
3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"six concluding lines I remember, though I have forgotten the two first of the
stanza; but the purport of them was that his censures proceeded from good will ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"The short " censures " of ancient writers have, perhaps, an interest of curiosity
greater than their interest of value. It is not improbable that they ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"10, And at other times, as opportunity shall serve thereunto. OF EXCOMMUNICATION
AND OTHER censures. [From the Same.] CHAPTER XIV.—1. ..."
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