ˈsen(t)sə(r)ˌship noun
( -s )
1. : the institution, system, or practice of censoring : the actions or practices of censors or censorates ; especially : censorial control exercised repressively
censorship that has … permitted a very limited dispersion of facts — Philip Wylie
2. : the office, power, or term of a Roman censor
during the censorship of Claudius
3. : the process of excluding from consciousness those ideas and feelings that would be intolerable in other than symbolic form