censureship

Noun

censureship (countable and uncountable, plural censureships)

1. The act or process of censuring; censure or condemnation.
   • It is true that upon this system the judicial censureship which is exercised by the courts of justice over the legislation cannot extend to all laws indistinctly, in as much as some of them can never give rise to that exact species of contestation which is termed a law-suit; [...]1836, American Quarterly Review, page 147
   • It will readily be understood that by connecting the censureship of the laws with the private interests of members of the community, and by intimately uniting the prosecution of the law with the prosecution of an individual, the legislation is protected from wanton assailants, and from the daily...1835, Alexis de Tocqueville, “Judicial Power in the United States, and Its Influence on Political Society”, in Henry Reeve, transl., Democracy in America. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley...
2. The rejection and suppression of offensive material; censorship.
   • Great Britain is the only country in Europe where the press does not at present groan under the heavy shackles of prohibitions and censureships.1805, John MacDiarmid, An enquiry into the system of National Defence in Great Britain
   • They agree that obscenity should not be distributed, but would like to place the onus of censureship on publishers, authors themselves, librarians, or even on the public through a righteous boycott of bad books that happen to reach the market.1945, Liguorian - Volume 33