different between censure vs vilify

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

From Late Latin v?lific?re, present active infinitive of v?lific? (“vilify”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l.?.fa?/

Verb

vilify (third-person singular simple present vilifies, present participle vilifying, simple past and past participle vilified)

1. (transitive) To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.

   Synonyms: abuse, assail, criticize, decry, denigrate, demonize, denounce, libel, revile, slander, run down; see also Thesaurus:defame

   Antonyms: glorify, praise

2. (transitive) To belittle through speech; to put down.

   Synonyms: berate; see also Thesaurus:criticize

   Antonyms: glorify, praise

Derived terms

• vilification
• vilifiable
• vilifier

Related terms

• vile

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