censureships

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
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