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

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

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

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

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