BharatNotes Censorship
nounUsage in a UPSC answer
A constitutional democracy must guard against the temptation to equate dissent with sedition, for unchecked censorship corrodes the very marketplace of ideas on which informed citizenship and accountable governance depend.
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Word Family
censorship (n), censor (n/v), censored (adj), censorious (adj), censoriously (adv), uncensored (adj)
Root
Latin censor = Roman magistrate assessing citizens and morals; English -ship = state/condition suffix; first use mid-1500s
Etymology
From Latin censor ("Roman magistrate who assessed citizens and supervised public morals") + English suffix "-ship"; earliest use in the mid-1500s.
Memory Hook
Link to "censor" sharing a root with "census": a Roman censor counted heads and judged morals; censor-SHIP is the office (and now the practice) of that judging authority deciding what may be spoken or shown.
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