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censure

See also: censuré

English

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Etymology

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From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French, from Latin censūra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censēre (“to consider, to assess, to value, to judge, to tax, etc.”).

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censure (countable and uncountable, plural censures)

  1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
    Synonyms: admonishment, dispraise, disapprobation; see also Thesaurus:condemnation, Thesaurus:criticism
  2. Official reprimand.
    • 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:45 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron‎[1], archived from the original on 29 November 2024:
      After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with[sic] no censure from the government.
  3. A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
    Synonyms: discipline, punishment, sanction; see also Thesaurus:penalty
  4. (obsolete) A judgment (either favorable or unfavorable); an opinion.
    Synonyms: conclusion, idea, view; see also Thesaurus:judgement
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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱens- (0 c, 21 e)

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Verb

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censure (third-person singular simple present censures, present participle censuring, simple past and past participle censured)

  1. (transitive) To criticize harshly.
    Synonyms: castigate, excoriate, lay into; see also Thesaurus:criticize
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
      I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
    • 1946 January and February, T. S. Lascelles, “A Series of False Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 43:
      The Woodwalton signalman, Rose, who was severely censured in Captain Tyler's report, behaved with great negligence.
    • 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:
      Cultural norms and social rules regulate whether someone can be among others or will be isolated, whether the sick will be considered foul or acceptable, and whether they are to be pitied or censured.
  2. (transitive) To formally rebuke.
    Synonym: reprimand
    • 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN‎[2]:
      The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats’ congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
    Synonyms: dub, esteem, look upon; see also Thesaurus:deem

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Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

    Noun

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    censure f (plural censures)

    1. censorship
    2. (politics) ellipsis of motion de censure (“confidence motion”)
      • 2025 October 3, Corentin Lesueur, Clément Guillou, “Marine Le Pen menace de censurer Sébastien Lecornu dès la déclaration de politique générale”, in Le Monde‎[3]:
        A rebours de ses élus et de ses proches, qui réfutaient, depuis la rentrée, toute volonté d’« accélérer le calendrier » d’une probable censure, la députée du Pas-de-Calais menace désormais, après une énième évolution stratégique, de régler le sort du Sébastien Lecornu dès son discours devant l’Assemblée nationale, attendu le 7 octobre.
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    • → Persian: سانسور (sânsur)
    • → Turkish: sansür

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    censure

    1. inflection of censurer:
      1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
      2. second-person singular imperative

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    Galician

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    censure

    1. inflection of censurar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

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    • IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.re/
    • Rhymes: -ure
    • Hyphenation: cen‧sù‧re

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    censure f

    1. plural of censura

    Latin

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    cēnsūre

    1. vocative masculine singular of cēnsūrus

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    • Hyphenation: cen‧su‧re

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    censure

    1. inflection of censurar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

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    censure

    1. inflection of censurar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative
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