censorship Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
    security review; censoring.
  2. noun deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
    censoring.

WordNet

Cen"sor*ship noun
Definitions
  1. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland.
    The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

Webster 1913