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Censorship synonyms

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censoring
An act of censorship.
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  1. An act of censorship.
suppression
The state of being suppressed.
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  1. The state of being suppressed.
  2. The act of suppressing.
  3. A suppressing or being suppressed
restriction
Something that restricts; a regulation or limitation:
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  1. Something that restricts; a regulation or limitation:
  2. A restricting or being restricted
  3. The action of restricting or the state of being restricted:
forbidding
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
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  1. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
editing
An act or instance of something being edited
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  1. An act or instance of something being edited
deletion
A deleted word, passage, etc.
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  1. A deleted word, passage, etc.
  2. The act of deleting; removal by striking out.
  3. Material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.
Find another word for censorship. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for censorship, like: censoring, suppression, licensing, restriction, forbidding, controlling the press, governmental control, security blackout, news blackout, thought control and the censor's blue pencil.

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  • He wrote according to order, and no question of censorship arose.

  • In the second part of the constitution the pope deals with the censorship of books.

  • Gerlach (1872), dealing especially with the censorship of Claudius.

  • There was no freedom of the press, however, until 1821, when the abolition of the censorship and the constitutional struggle in Portugal gave rise to a politicaldiscussion that marked the opening of a new era in the development of the nation, and aroused an intellectual activity that has been highly productive in journalistic and polemical writings.

  • 1917 the censorship was controlled by the Intelligence Department at G.H.Q.

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