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US
/ˈsɛnʃɝ/
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[ UK /sˈɛnʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛnʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being excommunicated
- harsh criticism or disapproval
VERB
- rebuke formally
How To Use censure In A Sentence
- 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 Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
- The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
- Show no public censure for your dying elephant, either. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
- Broadcast watchdogs have censured him for swearing on his former BBC Radio 1 afternoon show.
- It is an act of vandalism for which the party deserves censure. Times, Sunday Times
- censure
- Bibliomaniacs were censured, that is, for eschewing commonplace means of engaging the material traces of the literary past and commonplace means of cohabiting with the nation's literary tradition. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
- The countries, which the think tank says should be " censured " by the G-20, include China, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan. The Search for a New Currency System
- It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
- Its only real weapon over the government is that it can propose a vote of censure.