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Censure

Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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Manner of action 1

Animadvert 76% connected

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.

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Broader term 5

Condemnation 76% connected

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Criticise 76% connected

To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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Disapprobation 76% connected

The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rejection 76% connected

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

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Narrower term 1

Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Derivationally related 6

Animadvert 74% connected

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Animadvert 74% connected

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Excommunicate 74% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Excommunicate 74% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Unchurch 74% connected

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

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Unchurch 74% connected

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

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Synonym 5

Animadversion 92% connected

The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Criminate 92% connected

To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exclusion 92% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excommunication 92% connected

The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reprimand 92% connected

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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