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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

2. (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.

3. (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.

4. (v. i.) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

5. (v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.

6. (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.

7. (v. i.) To judge.

Greek

2008. epitimao -- to honor, to mete out due measure, hence to ...
... to honor, to mete out due measure, hence to censure. Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epitimao Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-tee-mah'-o) Short Definition: ...
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3201. memphomai -- to blame, find fault
... to blame, find fault. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: memphomai Phonetic Spelling:
(mem'-fom-ahee) Short Definition: I blame, censure Definition: I blame ...
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784. aspilos -- spotless, unstained
... 784 ("unspotted," literally, "without spot or stain") refers to what is () , ie
morally unblemished (pure) -- "free from censure, irreproachable, free from vice ...
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3469. momaomai -- to find fault with
... blame. From momos; to carp at, ie Censure (discredit) -- blame. see GREEK momos.
(momethe) -- 1 Occurrence. (momesetai) -- 1 Occurrence. 3468, 3469. ...
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3470. momos -- blame, disgrace, blemish
... 3470 -- literally, a blemish (spot, blot); (figuratively) what spoils a reputation,
causing undue blame (disgrace, censure). Word Origin a prim. ...
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3681. oneidos -- reproach, disgrace
... Cognate: 3681 (a neuter noun) -- defamation (reproach), personal disgrace; primarily,
"reproach, censure, " (loss of reputation; ). See 3679 (). ...
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423. anepilemptos -- without reproach
... Here the person (accuser) trying to seize someone's character by unjustified censure
is shown to be groundless, ie when the matter is understood in its . ...
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2633. katakrisis -- condemnation
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: katakrisis Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ak'-ree-sis)
Short Definition: the act of condemnation Definition: condemnation, censure. ...
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Library

Endurance of the World's Censure.
... SERMON X. Endurance of the World's Censure. "And thou, son of man, be not
afraid of them; neither be afraid of their words, though ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon x endurance of the.htm

The Fourth Ground of his Censure is in the Beginning of My Second ...
... 25. The fourth ground of his censure is in the beginning of my Second Book,
in which I expounded the statement which St. Paul makes ...
/.../25 the fourth ground of.htm

Judge Fairly, and You are Deserving of Censure in This...
... Book V. 45 Judge fairly, and you are deserving of censure in this� ... Footnotes:
[4554] Lit., "are in this part of censure.". [4555] Lit., "for.". ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/45 judge fairly and you.htm

I Wish Now to Review Your Sacred Rites; and I Pass no Censure on ...
... Chapter XIV. I wish now to review your sacred rites; and I pass no censure
on your� I wish now to review your sacred rites; and ...
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Of God and his Affections, and the Censure of Epicurus.
... Chap. IV."Of God and His Affections, and the Censure of Epicurus. That
which follows is concerning the school of Epicurus; that ...
/.../a treatise on the anger of god addressed to donatus/chap iv of god and his.htm

Christ's Reprehension of the Pharisees Seeking a Sign his Censure ...
... Chapter XXVII."Christ's Reprehension of the Pharisees Seeking a Sign His Censure
of Their Love of Outward Show Rather Than Inward Holiness. ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xxvii christs reprehension of the.htm

St. Paul Quite in Accordance with St. Peter and Other Apostles of ...
... Paul Quite in Accordance with St. Peter and Other Apostles of the Circumcision His
Censure of St. Peter Explained, and Rescued from Marcion's Misapplication. ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter iii st paul quite in.htm

Of Nature, and of the World; and a Censure of the Stoics and ...
... The Divine Institutes. Book VII. Of a Happy Life. Chap. III."Of Nature, and
of the World; And a Censure of the Stoics and Epicureans. ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap iii of nature and of.htm

That it is the Prerogative of the Same Power to be Beneficent and ...
... Admonition, then, is the censure of loving care, and produces understanding. ... Upbraiding
is censure on account of what is base, conciliating to what is noble. ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter ix that it is the.htm

Of the Subject to whom to the Key of Church Priviledge, Power, or ...
... to joyn with the Elders, in inquiring, hearing, judging of publike scandals; so
as to binde notoribus offenders and impenitents under censure, and to forgive ...
/.../chap iiii of the subject.htm

Thesaurus

Censure (3 Occurrences)
...Censure (3 Occurrences). Galatians 2:11 Now when Peter visited Antioch, I remonstrated
with him to his face, because he had incurred just censure. (WEY). ...
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Reproach (124 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge
with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. ...
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Blame (14 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find
fault with; to reproach. 2. (vt) To bring reproach upon; to blemish. ...
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Lash (2 Occurrences)
... 10. (vt) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash
vice. ... (vi) To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language. ...
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Tax (43 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or
health. 7. (n.) Charge; censure. 8. (n.) A lesson to be learned; a task. ...
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Reproof (29 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially,
blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. ...
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Retort (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. 3. (n.) To return, as an argument,
accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity. ...
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Excommunication
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an
ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for ...
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Denounce (8 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse
in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize. Int. ...
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Backbite
... 1. (vi) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully
(an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). ...
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Bible Concordance

Censure (3 Occurrences)

Galatians 2:11 Now when Peter visited Antioch, I remonstrated with him to his face, because he had incurred just censure.
(WEY)

Titus 2:8 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.
(WEY RSV)

Job 20:3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Censure

Related Terms

Reproach (124 Occurrences)

Blame (14 Occurrences)

Lash (2 Occurrences)

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