censor - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'censor' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Censor

[ n.]

- One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
- One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
- One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
- A critic; a reviewer.

Meaning of 'censor' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . censor

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

Example in sentence:

This magazine is censored by the government

Nearby Words:

cenanthy cenation cenatory cenobite cenobitic cenobitical cenobitism cenogamy cenotaph cenotaphy

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Censorship
Censorship in psychoanalysis is the regulation of the repressed material in the unconscious to see that nothing threatening to the ego is allowed to escape into

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