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censor vs censure

censor

Definitions

noun

  1. a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
  2. someone who censures or condemns

verb

  1. forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
  2. subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

Examples

During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.

In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.

The current documents are the same, but now uncensored.

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censure

Definitions

noun

  1. the state of being excommunicated
  2. harsh criticism or disapproval

verb

  1. rebuke formally

Examples

That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans.

The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure.

Show no public censure for your dying elephant, either.

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