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[ sen-ser-ship ]SHOW IPA

/ snsrp /PHONETIC RESPELLING

the time during which a censor holds office.

the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.

OTHER WORDS FROM censorshipanticensorship, adjectiveprecensorship, nounprocensorship, adjectiveself-censorship, noun

Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2019

The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

Jordan also banned it, and Malaysia, Egypt, and Indonesia subjected it to their censorship boards.

To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.

So this startling move towards Internet censorship should come as no surprise.

Ironically, Trotter had succeeded in tightening a censorship bill but failed to stop the movie.

And here ends our melancholy tale, which the censorship of the press in Russia prevented from ever before being publicly related.

Thus far it seemed, on such news as the censorship permitted to come through, that Maritz stood alone.

It represented the breaking forth of the unconscious into expression, controlled by a censorship on the part of the poet.

The audiencia had general authority over the inspection and censorship of books which were printed in the colony or imported.

By devious ways it had broken through the censorship of the frontier in cunning cipher.

censorship

a policy or programme of censoring

the act or system of censoring

psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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