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Censure vs Abjure - What's the difference?

censure | abjure |

As verbs the difference between censure and abjure

is that censure is while abjure is .

censure

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of blaming]], criticizing, or [[condemn, condemning as wrong; reprehension.
  • * Macaulay
  • Both the censure and the praise were merited.
  • An official reprimand.
  • Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • excommunication or other censure of the church
  • (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
  • * William Shakespeare Hamlet , Act I, scene III:
  • Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment.

    Verb

    (censur)
  • to criticize harshly
  • * Shakespeare
  • I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
  • to formally rebuke
  • (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.

    Synonyms

    * See also

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    abjure

    English

    Verb

    (abjur)
  • To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
  • To abjure allegiance to a prince.
    To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
  • (transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
  • To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
  • To abjure errors.
  • * 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
  • But this rough magic I here abjure [...]
  • To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
  • Synonyms

    * renounce

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