censure.txt

censure | ˈsen(t)SHər |
verb [with object]
express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement: a judge was censured in 1983 for a variety of types of injudicious conduct.
noun
the expression of formal disapproval: angry delegates offered a resolution of censure against the offenders | they paid the price in social ostracism and family censure.
DERIVATIVES
censurable | ˈsen(t)SH(ə)rəb(ə)l | adjective
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘judicial sentence’): from Old French censurer (verb), censure (noun), from Latin censura ‘judgement, assessment’, from censere ‘assess’.
USAGE
On the difference in meaning between censure and censor, see usage at censor.