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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Censorship

/sĕn'-sẽrsh-ĭpˌ/ · Cen·sor·ship · IPA /ˈsɛnsɚʃɪp/
01 n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
  1. 1.
    The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
    “The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship.” Macaulay.