[f. CENSURE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CENSURE.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, B. Shal … Each quaint fashion-monger … lye slauering Taynting thy lines with his lewd censuring?
1656. Artif. Handsom. (1662), 2. The secret censurings or back-biting whispers of some.
1685. J. Scott, Chr. Life, VII. (1747), III. 443. The Power of censuring.
