Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

censorian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cen-so-ri-an
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Archaic form of censorial.

Archaic

noun

A censorious person.

Example Sentences

"And as the chancery had the Pretorian power for equity; so the star-chamber had the Censorian power for offences under the degree of capital."
"And when the father or mother dies that has lived a life so good and pure that it sweetens even the life of the censorians into praise, one likes to think that this worrying, poor uneven life is not all, but that really they have entered into a great rest and the shelter of a mighty friendship […]"

Etymology

From censor + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: censor

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more censorian (comparative) most censorian (superlative) censorians (plural)

Questions

What does censorian mean?: Archaic form of censorial.
Where does censorian come from?: From censor + -ian.

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