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

I rather think the author wishes to be taken by Gray's admirers for a ridiculer of Johnson, and by the tatter's for a censurer of Gray.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

He also took upon himself the office of perpetual censurer of my discourses.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Barker, Joseph

Dennis was not his only censurer: the zealous papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt, and Erasmus too studiously praised; but to these objections he had not much regard.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

But we'll examine circumstances fairly, and then we shall see which is most ridiculous; the phrase, or our sagacious censurer.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus