All 5 Uses
censure
in
A Room With A View
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- "Eat your dinner, dear," she said to Lucy, and began to toy again with the meat that she had once censured.†
Chpt 1censured = gave harsh or formal criticism
- I will hear no breath of censure against our dear Queen.
Chpt 3 *censure = criticism
- But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.†
Chpt 4censured = gave harsh or formal criticism
- She must avoid censuring Cecil.†
Chpt 15censuring = giving harsh or formal criticism
- As the years pass, they are censured.†
Chpt 17censured = gave 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.