All 3 Uses
censure
in
Northanger Abbey
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- From Pope, she learnt to censure those who "bear about the mockery of woe."†
Chpt 1 *censure = harsh or formal criticism
- With such encouragement, Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd.†
Chpt 2uncensured = not given harsh criticismstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncensured means not and reverses the meaning of censured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.†
Chpt 5censure = harsh or formal criticism
Definitions:
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(1)
(censure) harsh criticism; or formal criticism from an organization -- such as the U.S. Senate
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Censure was used archaically to mean judgement or evaluation.