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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censor morum

Among his immediate surroundings a word from Churchwarden Joliffe carried more weight than an outsider would have imagined, and long usage had credited him with the delicate position of censor morum to the community.

From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner

It is to be regretted that his Majesty’s very accomplished master of the horse cannot also hold the position of censor morum to the citizens of Berlin.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier

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 L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

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

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

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 Ambrose Bierce

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