Stricture vs Censure - What's the difference?
stricture | censure |
(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
a sternly critical remark or review
(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
(obsolete) strictness
(obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants
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 stricture
is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action.As a verb censure is
.stricture
English
Noun
(en noun)- For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
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.