Both Uses of
censure
in
Babbitt
- If he took her to dinner, if he were seen by censorious friends--But he went on ardently:
Chpt 24 *censorious = tending to express harsh criticism
- Mr. Jones, though he was a man censorious of morals and of laundry machinery, seemed satisfied.†
Chpt 29
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Censure was used archaically to mean judgement or evaluation.