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censorship

[sen-ser-ship]
noun
  1. the act or practice of censoring.
  2. the office or power of a censor.
  3. the time during which a censor holds office.
  4. the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.
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Origin of censorship

First recorded in 1585–95; censor + -ship
Related formsan·ti·cen·sor·ship, adjectivepre·cen·sor·ship, nounpro·cen·sor·ship, adjectiveself-cen·sor·ship, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for anticensorship

anticensorship

adjective
  1. opposed to a policy or programme of censoring
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censorship

noun
  1. a policy or programme of censoring
  2. the act or system of censoring
  3. psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind
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Word Origin and History for anticensorship

censorship

n.

1590s, "office of a censor," from censor (n.) + -ship. Meaning "action of censoring" is from 1824.

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