different between censure vs repulse

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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Translations

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

Related terms

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

Borrowed from Latin repulsus, from repellere (“to drive back”), from re- (“back”) + pellere (“to drive”).

For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?ls/

Verb

repulse (third-person singular simple present repulses, present participle repulsing, simple past and past participle repulsed)

1. (transitive) To repel or drive back.

   to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy

2. (transitive) To reject or rebuff.

   to repulse a suitor

3. (transitive) To cause revulsion in.

   The smell of rotting food repulsed me.

   I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.

Translations

Noun

repulse (plural repulses)

1. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed
2. refusal, rejection or repulsion

Related terms

• repel
• repellent
• repulsion
• repulsive
• pulse

Further reading

• repulse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repulse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• repulse at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Slurpee, pelures, perules

Italian

Verb

repulse

1. third-person singular past historic of repellere

Noun

repulse

1. plural of repulso

Anagrams

• preluse
• presule

Latin

Participle

repulse

1. vocative masculine singular of repulsus

Spanish

Verb

repulse

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