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censorship

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cen·sor·ship  (snsr-shp)
n.
1. The act, process, or practice of censoring.
2. The office or authority of a Roman censor.
3. Psychology Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form.

censorship
Noun
the practice or policy of censoring films, letters, or publications
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.censorshipcensorship - counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
military censorship - all types of censorship conducted by personnel of the armed forces
national censorship - censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions
counterintelligence - intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
2.censorship - deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
deletion - the act of deleting something written or printed
Bowdlerism - censorship in the form of prudish expurgation
Comstockery - censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality

censorship
noun expurgation, blue pencil, purgation, bowdlerization or bowdlerisation, sanitization or sanitisation

See: armed forces censorship; civil censorship; field press censorship; national censorship; primary censorship; prisoner of war censorship; secondary censorship.
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Spanish censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] ncensura
French censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] censor ncensure f
German censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] censor nZensur f
Italian censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] ncensura

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He started a journal-- "Vremya," which was forbidden by the Censorship through a misunderstanding.
Actually, I seem to find another hand at work, another hand which works with the censorship, too.
Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only.
 
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