Other forms: censures
Censure is strong formal disapproval. A motion of censure, public censure, censured by the committee.
It is an official act rather than a feeling, and a motion of censure is a parliament's way of condemning somebody without removing them. It is a different word from censorship, though both come from the Roman censor.
1nouncensureStrong formal disapproval.
“The doctor faced censure from the medical board for his careless mistakes.”
censure is a disapproval.
Latin censura means the office of a censor, from censere, to assess.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱens-
Latin
censūra — censor's office or assessment
Middle English
censure
English, today
censure
Built from
From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French -, from Latin censūra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censēre (“to consider, to assess, to value, to judge, to tax, etc.”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA