Censure

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Censure

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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Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Mentioned in these terms

Admonish, Blacklist, Interdict, Reprimand.

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See Also

  • Law Dictionaries.
  • ongress of the United States; Impeachment.

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