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Antonyms for censor

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sen-ser
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn sər

Definition of censor

Origin :
  • 1530s, "Roman magistrate who took censuses and oversaw public morals," from Middle French censor and directly from Latin censor, from censere "to appraise, value, judge," from PIE root *kens- "speak solemnly, announce" (cf. Sanskrit Å›amsati "recites, praises," Å›asa "song of praise").
  • There were two of them at a time in classical times, usually patricians, and they also had charge of public finances and public works. Transferred sense of "officious judge of morals and conduct" in English is from 1590s. Roman censor also had a transferred sense of "a severe judge; a rigid moralist; a censurer." Of books, plays (later films, etc.), 1640s. By the early decades of the 19c. the meaning of the English word had shaded into "state agent charged with suppression of speech or published matter deemed politically subversive." Related: Censorial.
  • verb forbid; ban; selectively remove
Example sentences :
  • This would doubtless hardly be tolerated by the "censor" today.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • There would seem to be no limit to the influence of the Censor.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 » by Various
  • Several bridges were also erected, and Cato the Censor is said to have built a basilica.
  • Extract from : « Architecture » by Thomas Roger Smith
  • Jeff put out his hands for the sheets and the censor gave them up willingly.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • They was after it too,—they an' the Sundyes; but the Censor did 'em.
  • Extract from : « The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • I asked the Censor vexedly about one message he had stopped.
  • Extract from : « Bulgaria » by Frank Fox
  • Was it addressed to the censor of the Territorial Bank or to the former receiver-general?
  • Extract from : « The Nabob » by Alphonse Daudet
  • It contains no word about the war, but I cannot let it pass through the hands of the censor.
  • Extract from : « The Petticoat Commando » by Johanna Brandt
  • Few of the old Christian cathedrals would have passed the Censor of Plays.
  • Extract from : « A Miscellany of Men » by G. K. Chesterton
  • He is a great teacher, a corrector of morals, a censor of vice, and a commender of virtue.
  • Extract from : « Aesop's Fables » by Aesop

Synonyms for censor

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