censureship

English edit

Etymology edit

censure +‎ -ship

Noun edit

censureship (countable and uncountable, plural censureships)

The act or process of censuring; censure or condemnation.
- 1836, American Quarterly Review, page 147:
  It is true that upon this system the judicial censureship which is exercised by the courts of justice over the legislation cannot extend to all laws indistinctly, in as much as some of them can never give rise to that exact species of contestation which is termed a law-suit; [...]
- 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville, “Judicial Power in the United States, and Its Influence on Political Society”, in Henry Reeve, transl., Democracy in America. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, pages 142–143:
  It will readily be understood that by connecting the censureship of the laws with the private interests of members of the community, and by intimately uniting the prosecution of the law with the prosecution of an individual, the legislation is protected from wanton assailants, and from the daily aggressions of party-spirit.
- 1974, M. Cherif Bassiouni, International Terrorism and Political Crimes, page 456:
  Although the new direction of the censureship towards western dictatorships rivalled the older Swedish censureship directed against the totalitarian powers in the socialist camp, it appears that the established line for the treatment of refugees from the latter countries was still maintained.
The rejection and suppression of offensive material; censorship.
- 1805, John MacDiarmid, An enquiry into the system of National Defence in Great Britain:
  Great Britain is the only country in Europe where the press does not at present groan under the heavy shackles of prohibitions and censureships.
- 1945, Liguorian - Volume 33:
  They agree that obscenity should not be distributed, but would like to place the onus of censureship on publishers, authors themselves, librarians, or even on the public through a righteous boycott of bad books that happen to reach the market.
- 2014, Elliott Antokoletz, A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context, page xiii:
  The second wave, which fully blossomed by the early 1950s, gained momentum after World War II with the revival of serialism and the disappearance of the censureship of the avant garde.