Word Meanings - CENSORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.
Related words: (words related to CENSORSHIP)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - INDECOROUSNESS
The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - INDEVOTE
Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - INDECENCY
1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - INDEXICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - INDEFICIENCY
The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - INDEFATIGABLY
Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - POST OFFICE
See POST - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.