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censure

/ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/ noun C2
  1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Official reprimand. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. (countable, uncountable)

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“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I am _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 39 · B2
Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could not be prevailed on to join in their censure of _her_, in spite of all Miss Bingley’s witticisms on _fine eyes_.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 50 · B2
You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 222 · B2
But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your eldest sister than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 230 · B2

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