Censure

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Legal Definition and Related Resources of Censure

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Meanings, Synonyms, Etymology, Translations and More

Meaning of Censure

A reprimand from a superior. In ecclesiastical law it was a spiritual punishment consisting in withdrawing from a person a privilege which the church gives him or in wholly expelling him from the Christian communion.

Synonyms of Censure

verb

• administer a rebuke

• admonish

• animadvert upon

• assail

• attack

• berate

• blame

• bring into discredit

• cast a reproach

• cast a slur upon

• cast blame upon

• cast reflection upon

• castigate

• chastise

• chide

• condemn

• declaim against

• decry

• denigrate

• denounce

• denunciate

• deprecate

• depreciate

• descant

• disapprove

• disparage

• dispraise

• exclaim against

• excoriate

• execrate

• expostulate

• expurgate

• find fault with

• fronder

• fulminate against

• hold up to execration

• hold up to reprobation

• impugn

• inveigh against

• not speak well of

• objurgate

• raise a hue and cry against

• rebuff

• rebuke

• recriminate

• remonstrate

• reprehend

• reprehendere

• reprimand

• reproach

• reprobate

• reprove

• speak ill of

• upbraid

• view with disfavor

• vilipend

• vituperare

• Associated Concepts: censure for improper conduct

• censure for prejudicial conduct

• letter of admonition

• reprimand

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Admonish, Blacklist, Interdict, Reprimand.

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See Also

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2. ongress of the United States; Impeachment.