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Webster 1913 Edition
Censorship
Cen′sor-ship
,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.
Definition 2024
censorship
censorship
English
Noun
censorship (countable and uncountable, plural censorships)
- 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
- 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1
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Translations
use of state or group power to control freedom of expression
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