Censure vs Impair - What's the difference?
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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
In obsolete terms the difference between censure and impair
is that censure is to form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge while impair is not fit or appropriate.As verbs the difference between censure and impair
is that censure is to criticize harshly while impair is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.As a noun censure
is the act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.As an adjective impair is
not fit or appropriate.censure
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.