Expostulate vs Censure - What's the difference?
expostulate | censure |
As verbs the difference between expostulate and censure is that expostulate is to protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct while censure is .
expostulate English
Verb
( expostulat)
To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
* Jowett
- Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
* 1719,
- The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XI, ''The Abbot’s Ways
- […] he affectionately loved many persons to whom he never or hardly ever shewed a countenance of love. Once on my venturing to expostulate with him on the subject, he reminded me of Solomon: “Many sons I have; it is not fit that I should smile on them.”
Synonyms
* challenge
* demur
* except
* inveigh
* kick
* object
* protest
* remonstrate
* squawk
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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
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