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What is the noun for censorious?

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censor
  1. (historical) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.
  2. An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content.
  3. One who censures or condemns.
  4. (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “A movie is good, I think, when the censor does not understand what should be censored.”
      “Moore was a vehement censor of the movement.”
censorship
  1. The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Charges of censorship, however, will not impress a country that likes to consider itself a champion of literary freedom.”
      “It was precisely such censorship under the Taliban that liberal warmongers cited as a reason for violent regime change.”
      “That is not a call for censorship, but it is legitimate to query whether this project is the most suitable to receive public money.”
censorist
  1. (rare) A person or organization that favors or applies censorship.
censorism
  1. A system of policies that favors censorship.
censorability
  1. The state or condition of being censorable.
censoriousness
  1. The state of being censorious
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As a group they are keen to move away from the moral censoriousness and free market zealotry which are typical of older Tories.”
      “Not only is his play anti-puritanical, but it recognizes without censoriousness the strength of the sexual urge and the intense pleasure it offers.”
      “He was continued in this office by Pius IV, whom, however, he antagonized by his censoriousness and obstinacy.”
censoress
  1. (dated) A female censor.
censour
  1. Obsolete form of censor.
censoring
censorships
censorings
censorists
  1. plural of censorist
censours
  1. plural of censour
censors
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