HOW TO PRONOUNCE
censure
/ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/
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SEN-sher: the ending begins with sh.
The main stress falls on the short e in SEN. The last vowel is an unstressed er, with no separate yoo sound for the written u.
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“The council voted to censure the member.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does censure mean?
noun
- The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
- Official reprimand.
- A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To criticize harshly.
- To formally rebuke.
- (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
noun
- (obsolete) A judgment (either favorable or unfavorable); an opinion.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
In thus dragging you again before the public, I am aware that I shall subject myself to no inconsiderable amount of censure.
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Some were inclined to censure him for not fighting, but he was sustained by a majority of the warriors, who commended his self-restraint.
The object of the latter is to find out how he may escape censure and punishment with the smallest expence of scholastic application.
He, therefore, who admires Buonaparte in all his earlier campaigns as the greatest of generals, ought not to censure him in this instance.