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Censure vs Disown - What's the difference?

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Censure is a related term of disown.


As verbs the difference between censure and disown

is that censure is while disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.

censure

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * censor * censorial * censorious * censorship * census

    References

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    disown

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
    • Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.

    Usage notes

    Particularly used of parents regarding their children, and stronger than the similar estrange, which can also be used of children regarding their parents, or of siblings.

    Synonyms

    * disavow * disclaim