Censure
Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
To judge.
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Censure Quotations
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
Gustav Mahler
Censure Translations
censure in Dutch is afkeuring, wraking, verwerping
censure in German is tadeln
censure in Italian is criticare
censure in Latin is culpo
censure in Spanish is reprender
censure in Swedish is kriticera, klander
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