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What does "censure" mean?

Censure: The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. Macaulay.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet.
  2. 3.To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] "Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer." Beau. & Fl.
  3. 4.To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. Shak.
  4. 5.To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence. Shak.
  5. 6.To judge. [Obs.] Shak.

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