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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.

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  • 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.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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