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   Cen·sure

   /ˈsen(t)SHər/

   

   verb

   • 1. express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement: "a judge was censured in 1983 for a variety of types of injudicious conduct"

   noun

   • 1. the expression of formal disapproval: "angry delegates offered a resolution of censure against the offenders"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘judicial sentence’): from Old French censurer (verb), censure (noun), from Latin censura ‘judgement, assessment’, from censere ‘assess’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. censurable adjective
   • 2. censurer noun

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