censurer

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When they laid out his body "it was found that this ironist, this witty censurer, had worn a hair shirt."

From Time Magazine Archive

May Allah never make you parting dree *           And be your censurer shamed wearily!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is easy to find a censurer of the sins of the land, but hard to find a true mourner for the sins of the land.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

No writer can be great without a manner of his own; and that Dickens had such a manner his most supercilious censurer will readily allow.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

"I have observed," said I, "that the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it."

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah