All 4 Uses of
censure
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- They all felt friendly to me at once, even those who had been sternest in their censure, and all the following month, before my discharge came, they could not make enough of me.†
Chpt 6censure = harsh or formal criticism
- Many persons were shocked at the time and wagged their heads as they talked over it—and most of all Father Ferapont, to whom some of the censorious had hastened to report this "extraordinary" counsel on the part of the elder.†
Chpt 7censorious = tending to express harsh criticism
- God will censure you.†
Chpt 11censure = harsh or formal criticism
- they would censure me, and I would burst out laughing in their faces.
Chpt 11 *censure = criticize
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.