Epigraph vs Censure - What's the difference?
epigraph | censure |
an inscription, especially one on a building.
a literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
(mathematics, of a function) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
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 a noun epigraph
is an inscription, especially one on a building.As a verb censure is
.epigraph
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(wikipedia epigraph)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (mathematics) hypographcensure
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(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.