different between censure vs damn

English

Etymology

From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French, from Latin cens?ra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.??/
  • (UK, now rare) IPA^(key): /?s?ns.j??/, /?s?n.?(j)??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.??/

Noun

censure (countable and uncountable, plural censures)

1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
2. An official reprimand.
3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     excommunication […] being the chief ecclesiastical censure

4. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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Verb

censure (third-person singular simple present censures, present participle censuring, simple past and past participle censured)

1. To criticize harshly.

2. To formally rebuke.
3. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

   • Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

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References

• “censure”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “censure” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "censure" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• encurse

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.sy?/

Etymology 1

From Latin c?ns?ra.

Noun

censure f (plural censures)

1. censorship

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

censure

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of censurer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
3. second-person singular imperative of censurer

Further reading

• “censure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cénures

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??en?su.re/
• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

censure f

1. plural of censura

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ken?su?.re/, [k???s?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??en?su.re/, [t???n?su???]

Participle

c?ns?re

1. vocative masculine singular of c?ns?rus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cen?su?re

Verb

censure

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of censurar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of censurar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of censurar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of censurar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?en?su?e/, [??n?su.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sen?su?e/, [s?n?su.?e]

Verb

censure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of censurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of censurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of censurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of censurar.

English

Etymology

Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnare (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæm/
• Rhymes: -æm
• Homophone: dam

Verb

damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)

1. (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.

2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
   • November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell

     You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.

5. (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.

6. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
   • c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury

Conjugation

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Adjective

damn (not comparable)

1. (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:damned

Translations

Adverb

damn (not comparable)

1. (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.

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Interjection

damn

1. (mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dammit

Derived terms

• dang (euphemistic)
• darn (euphemistic)
• dayum (slang, emphatic form)
• dizamn (slang, emphatic form)

Translations

Noun

damn (plural damns)

1. The use of "damn" as a curse.

2. (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

3. (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

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Anagrams

• MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd