Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who censures.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who censures.

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  • noun One who censures.

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Examples

  • Ne bloguant pas anonymement, je suis très souvent obligée de me censurer et parfois de raconter des histoires bizarres pour parler de certaines choses sans trop en dire.

    tongue-tied 2007

  • “Not of refusal or expostulation — that time is gone by,” said her stern censurer.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • In a language so expressive as the English, I hate the pedantry of tagging or prefacing what I write with Latin scraps; and ever was a censurer of the motto-mongers among our weekly and daily scribblers.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Call this palliation, or what you will; but if you see not the difference, you are blind; and a very unfit judge for yourself, much more unfit to be a censurer of me.

    Pamela 2006

  • But she was a severe censurer of pieces of a light or indecent turn, which had a tendency to corrupt the morals of youth, to convey polluted images, or to wound religion, whether in itself, or through the sides of its professors, and this, whoever were the authors, and how admirable soever the execution.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Behind his back I have never heard him praised without joining the eulogist; I have never heard a word spoken against him without opposing the censurer.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • But this is the least part of what this worthy censurer of theological discourses rebukes and corrects.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • * The elegant satirist of Christianity will smile at the presumption of so humble a censurer.

    A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

  • For nothing is more disgraceful or more unpleasant than slander that recoils on the person who sets it in motion; for as the reflection of light seems most to injure weak eyes, so does censure when it recoils on the censurer, and is borne out by the facts.

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • The censurer, and the censured, will stand at the same bar, and be tried by the same Judge.

    Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee

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