censure

See also: censuré

WOTD – 30 September 2015

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sjə/, /ˈsɛn.ʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

censure (countable and uncountable, plural censures)

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

     Both the censure and the praise were merited.

2. An official reprimand.
3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
   • Bishop Burnet

     excommunication or other censure of the church

4. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
   • William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act I, scene III:

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

Translations

the act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension

• Armenian: պարսավանք (hy) (parsavankʿ)
• Bulgarian: неодобрение (bg) n (neodobrenie)
• Finnish: moittiminen (fi)
• Galician: censura (gl)

• Russian: порица́ние (ru) n (poricánije), нарека́ние (ru) n (narekánije)
• Spanish: censura (es) f
• Tagalog: pula (tl)

an official reprimand

• Bulgarian: порицание (bg) n (poricanie)
• Finnish: moitteet pl

• Russian: вы́говор (ru) m (výgovor), замеча́ние (ru) n (zamečánije)

judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand

• Finnish: tuomio (fi)

Verb

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

1. To criticize harshly.
   • Shakespeare

     I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.

2. To formally rebuke.
3. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

to criticize harshly

• Arabic: لَام‎ (lām), اِسْتِنْكَر‎ (istinkar), اِسْتِهْجَن‎ (istihjan)

  Egyptian Arabic: لام‎ (laam), استنكر‎ (estankar), استهجن‎ (estahgen)

• Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) (poricavam)
• Esperanto: admoni

• Finnish: tuomita (fi)
• Galician: censurar (gl)
• Maori: wenerau
• Tagalog: pulaan

to formally rebuke

• Bulgarian: осъждам (bg) (osǎždam)
• Greek:

  Ancient: εὐθύνω (euthúnō)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} décrier (fr), ^{(please verify)} censurer (fr)

Related terms

• censor
• censorial
• censorious
• censorship
• census

References

• “censure” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “censure” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "censure" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• encurse

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.syʁ/

Noun

censure f (plural censures)

1. censorship

Verb

censure

1. first-person singular present indicative of censurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of censurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
5. second-person singular imperative of censurer

Further reading

• “censure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cénures

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

censure f

1. plural of censura

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Latin

Participle

cēnsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cēnsūrus

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Portuguese

Verb

censure

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of censurar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of censurar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of censurar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of censurar

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Spanish

Verb

censure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of censurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of censurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of censurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of censurar.