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Webster 1913 Edition


Censorship

Cen′sor-ship

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Noun.
The office or power of a censor;
as, to stand for a
censorship
.
Holland.
The press was not indeed at that moment under a general
censorship
.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition


Censorship

CENSORSHIP

,
Noun.
The office or dignity of a censor; the time during which a censor holds his office.

Definition 2024


censorship

censorship

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Noun

censorship (countable and uncountable, plural censorships)

  1. The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
    • 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1
      such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."
    I think that censorship is an admission that you have lost an argument

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