Aspersion vs Censure - What's the difference?
aspersion | censure | Synonyms |
An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon… .
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(label) A sprinkling of .
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
The act of blaming]], criticizing, or [[condemn, condemning as wrong; reprehension.
* Macaulay
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
* William Shakespeare Hamlet , Act I, scene III:
to criticize harshly
* Shakespeare
to formally rebuke
(obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Aspersion is a synonym of censure.
As a noun aspersion
is an attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon… .As a verb censure is
.aspersion
English
Noun
(en noun)- If thou dost break her virgin knot before
- All sanctimonious ceremonies may
- With full and holy rite be minister'd,
- No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
- To make this contract grow; but barren hate [...]
Synonyms
* slander * See alsoDerived terms
* cast aspersionscensure
English
(wikipedia censure)Noun
(en noun)- Both the censure and the praise were merited.
- excommunication or other censure of the church
- Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment.
Verb
(censur)- I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
- Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.
