A person who criticizes or finds fault with something or someone, especially in an official capacity.
From Latin 'censura' (judgment, assessment), derived from 'censere' (to assess or judge). The suffix '-er' was added to create the agent noun. The meaning evolved from official Roman censors who judged morality to anyone who passes judgment.
Roman censors were powerful officials who literally judged whether citizens were morally fit—they could even erase someone from official records! The word survived 2,000 years because humans never stopped judging each other.
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