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CENSURE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harsh criticism or disapproval

Synonyms:

animadversion; censure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("censure" is a kind of...):

condemnation; disapprobation (an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "censure"):

interdict (an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district)

Derivation:

censure (rebuke formally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being excommunicated

Synonyms:

censure; exclusion; excommunication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("censure" is a kind of...):

rejection (the state of being rejected)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rebuke formally

Synonyms:

censure; criminate; reprimand

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "censure" is one way to...):

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "censure"):

animadvert (express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

censure (harsh criticism or disapproval)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A few words which dropped from him yesterday spoke his opinion, and some censure I acknowledge myself liable to.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Elinor kept her concern and her censure to herself; and was very thankful that Marianne was not present, to share the provocation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But most potent in his education was the cuff of the master's hand, the censure of the master's voice.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain, and have gone so far as to drop hints, that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

God wot I need not be too severe about others; I have a past existence, a series of deeds, a colour of life to contemplate within my own breast, which might well call my sneers and censures from my neighbours to myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From Pope, she learnt to censure those who—

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He was warm in his reprobation of Mr. Elton's conduct; it had been unpardonable rudeness; and Mrs. Elton's looks also received the due share of censure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was censure in common use, and easily given.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)