Censorship Definition

sĕnsər-shĭp
noun
The act, system, or practice of censoring.
Webster's New World
The office or term of a Roman censor.
Webster's New World
The agency by which unpleasant ideas, memories, etc. are kept from entering consciousness, except symbolically as in dreams.
Webster's New World

The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.

I think that censorship is an admission that you have lost an argument.
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Noun

Singular:
censorship
Plural:
censorships

Origin of Censorship

  • From censor +‎ -ship.

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Censorship Sentence Examples

  • He wrote according to order, and no question of censorship arose.

  • The tendency towards a stricter censorship was shown by a proposal which was carried through the Prussian parliament for controlling the instruction given at the universities by the Privatdozenten.

  • Gerlach (1872), dealing especially with the censorship of Claudius.

  • Press censorship was of course very rigid throughout the Dual Monarchy, but many Yugoslav newspapers were suppressed altogether.

  • A rigid censorship was exercised concerning the publication of information as to the production of munitions, measures of defence, bombardments, air raids, arrests, trials and executions of spies, etc.

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