[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being censorious or severely critical; disposition to censure or find fault.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 281. Less censoriousness of particular persons. Ibid. (1653), Chr. Concord, 103. God will cause men to abhorre that censoriousness of their Brethren.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 102, ¶ 5. All Females addicted to Censoriousness and Detraction.
1750. Johnson, Rambl., No. 50, ¶ 12. Another vice of age … is severity and censoriousness.
1818. Hallam, Mid. Ages (1841), I. iii. 300. The bold censoriousness of republican historians.
