Culprit vs Censure - What's the difference?
culprit | censure |
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
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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
As nouns the difference between culprit and censure
is that culprit is the person or thing at fault for a problem or crime while censure is the act of blaming]], criticizing, or [[condemn|condemning as wrong; reprehension.As a verb censure is
to criticize harshly.culprit
English
Noun
(en noun)- I tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit ; it should work now.
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Synonyms
* See alsocensure
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.