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censure

noun
/ˈsɛn.ʃə/UK/ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/US/ˈsen.ʃə/

Etymology

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.”).

  1. derived from censūra — “censor's office or assessment”
  2. inherited from censure

Definitions

  1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong

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

    • Censure, which arraigns the public actions and the private motives of princes, has ascribed to envy, a conduct which might be attributed to the prudence and moderation of Hadrian.
    • Both the censure and the praise were merited.

  2. Official reprimand.

  3. A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand

    A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.

    • He that hath past / So many Cenſures is novv come at laſt / To haue your princely Eares, grace you him; […]
    • [E]xcommunication […] being the chief ecclesiastical censure
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A judgment (either favorable or unfavorable)

      A judgment (either favorable or unfavorable); an opinion.

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

    2. To criticize harshly.

      • I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
      • The Woodwalton signalman, Rose, who was severely censured in Captain Tyler's report, behaved with great negligence.
      • 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.

    3. To formally rebuke.

      • 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.

    4. To form or express a judgment in regard to

      To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

      • Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.

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Derived

censurability, censurable, censureless, censureship, censurious, miscensure, recensure, uncensuring

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at censure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01censure02reprehension03criticism04critical05fault06culpability07blameworthiness08blameworthy09blame

A definitional loop anchored at censure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at censure

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA