censor morum

American  

[sen-ser maw-ruhm] / ˈsɛn sər ˈmɔ rəm /

noun

1. someone or something that attempts to regulate public morality. See also custos morum.

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Example Sentences

One conversant with Bierce only as a controversionalist and censor morum was, almost of necessity, constrained to imagine him a misanthrope, a soured and cynical recluse.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

If the American Puritan is so anxious to be a censor morum, he should obviously put a stop to the evil communications that really corrupt good manners.

From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

But what is an Easy Chair but a kind of censor morum!

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

Is the142 North the censor morum of the South?

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

His Rosciad created quite a panic among the disciples of Thespis, even the mighty Garrick courting this terrible censor morum.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant