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

Let not the reader, from these remarks, suppose that their author is a morose censurer of the times; or that the least sneer is intended against that idol of all orthodoxy "things as they are."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various

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

Lewis was a sharp censurer of Hearne, and was somewhat jealous of the typographical reputation of Ames.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall