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censorship
/ ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp /
noun
- a policy or programme of censoring
- the act or system of censoring
- psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind
Other Words From
- anti·censor·ship adjective
- pre·censor·ship noun
- pro·censor·ship adjective
- self-censor·ship noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of censorship1
Example Sentences
The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.
He was referring to web censorship behind the Great Firewall.
He added, “We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.”
Jordan also banned it, and Malaysia, Egypt, and Indonesia subjected it to their censorship boards.
To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.
The press censorship is a negative evil in London; in Cairo there is no doubt it is positive.
It was the conflict of material interests and the friarsʼ censorship which created the breach between the vicar and the people.
But the merciless excisions of inoffensive passages by the Austrian censorship destroyed the journal in a year.
Adolphe, who arrogates to himself the right of censorship, no longer finds the slightest suggestion to make.
The censorship was more rigid than ever, and Fouch was instructed to stop indiscreet private letters from the army.
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