Censure vs Remonstrance - What's the difference?

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Censure is a related term of remonstrance.

As a verb censure

is .

As a noun remonstrance is

a remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.

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.

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remonstrance

English

Noun

(en noun)

A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.

Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance .

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}

* 2004 , (Perry Link), " China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," , 15 March:

In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.