Censure

Quick meaning: Censure is a noun meaning The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Official reprimand.
2. A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
3. (transitive) To criticize harshly.
4. (transitive) To formally rebuke.
5. (obsolete) A judgment (either favorable or unfavorable); an opinion.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

Example Sentences

Both the censure and the praise were merited.

Take each man's cenſure, but reſerve thy judgment.

I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.

[E]xcommunication […] being the chief ecclesiastical censure

Word Forms

• censures
• censuring
• censured

Synonyms for censure

Depending on context, synonyms include admonishment, dispraise, disapprobation, attainder, attainture, attaintment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reprimand, animadversion, criminate, excommunication, exclusion, condemnation.

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