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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



... well, and England relatively is almost as bad as Ireland, yet England might well have shown the path of prudence to her poorer sister by greater adventure herself in the sensible domain of railway amalgamation. Much undeserved censure has been heaped upon the Irish lines; sins have been assumed from which they are free, and their virtues have ever been ignored. John Bright once said that "Railways have rendered more service and received less gratitude than any ...
— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow
... up. While you gratify your vanity, you are deprived of the true consolations of thought; life—the essence of life—evades your petty and jaundiced criticism, and you end by scolding and becoming ridiculous. Only one who loves has the right to censure and find fault.' ...
— Rudin • Ivan Turgenev
... knew not what infatuation influenced him in his former conduct. Many censured Miss Merrill for her want of spirit, as they termed it, in again receiving his addresses, but I was too well pleased by his happy termination of the affair to censure any one connected with it. The wedding day was a happy one to those most deeply concerned, and such being the case, the opinion of others was of little consequence; and the clouds which had for a time darkened their sky, left no shadow upon the sunshine ...
— The Path of Duty, and Other Stories • H. S. Caswell
... sour-tempered old lady, snapping and snarling at her with more than the bitterness of old, and the suppressed sighs and mournful demeanour of her sister, whose sympathy and companionship she had now completely forfeited, and who went about the house with a face of resigned woe and the censure of an ever implied rebuke ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... it. Think of the shame it would bring on the name of our family. People would point at your sisters, and say, 'Their brother is a convict!' they would shake their heads as I appeared in the pulpit, and whisper, 'The vicar whose son was transported!' But more than all (for men's censure matters not if we are guiltless), think how God will judge you, who have had opportunities of knowing better, who have been repeatedly warned that you are doing wrong, who are well aware that you are doing wrong: think how He will judge and ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston


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