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  • Censorious glare: It isn't easy to put the stigma back into illegitimate birth.

    White Ghetto? 2008

  • Announcing his withdrawal to The Times, Mr Duncan said: Censorious judgmentalism from the moralising wing, which treats half our countrymen as enemies, must be rooted out.

    Archive 2005-07-17 Laban 2005

  • Announcing his withdrawal to The Times, Mr Duncan said: Censorious judgmentalism from the moralising wing, which treats half our countrymen as enemies, must be rooted out.

    Wonderful Laban 2005

  • Censorious heirs or purchasers of the copyright might prevent the reprinting of a great work because they disagreed with its morals. 32 We might lose the works of

    The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

  • [Sidenote: 4 Pragmaticall.] [Sidenote: 5 Censorious.] [Sidenote: 6 Cruell.]

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

  • Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

    INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911

  • Was far more severe on himself than others; easy to forgive, and of an unbyass'd Integrity; not Censorious, but more inclin'd to spare the bold, than the wary Writer; so that it was a frequent Observation with him, that a Slip below was more unpardonable than a Fall above; and that to have no Fault, might be the Greatest.

    Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

  • The Censorious say, That the Men, whose hearts are aimed at, are very often the Occasions that one Part of the Face is thus dishonoured, and lies under a kind of Disgrace, while the other is so much Set off and Adorned by the Owner; and that the

    Spectator, June 2, 1711 1711

  • The second Kind of Female Orators are those who deal in Invectives, and who are commonly known by the Name of the Censorious.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • The Censorious say, That the Men, whose Hearts are aimed at, are very often the Occasions that one Part of the Face is thus dishonoured, and lies under a kind of Disgrace, while the other is so much Set off and Adorned by the Owner; and that the Patches turn to the

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

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