All 3 Uses of
censor
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- And the word 'contemporary' might have reminded him of 'The Contemporary'—a painful recollection owing to the censorship….†
Chpt 8 *
- I swopped a book from father's book-case for it, A Kinsman of Mahomet or Salutary Folly, a scandalous book published in Moscow a hundred years ago, before they had any censorship.†
Chpt 10
- That may be, they may stand aside, respectfully or no, but in my poor opinion the great writer ended his book in this way either in an access of childish and naive optimism, or simply in fear of the censorship of the day.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(censor as related to censorship) to remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, politically unacceptable, or a security threat
or:
a person who decides which such material should be removed or suppressed