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

She was not a preacher, or a lecturer—much less a censurer or reprover; but she was that most agreeable of teachers to childhood and youth, a story-teller.

From Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys by Various

O thou my censurer, forbear to chide me for my case, Lest, of      Love's cruel malady, perdition thee attain.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

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