释义 |
reˈproachfulness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The condition or quality of being reproachful (in senses of the adj.).
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke vii. 73 b, This mannes humanitee and curteous behaueour..ye turne into an occasion of slaundreous reprochefulnesse. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxxiv. 762 To the end that Justice should bee had in honour, and that we should not surmise any reprochefulnesse in it [etc.]. 1644Quarles Barnabas & B. 291 The reproachfulness of that death which thy Son suffered. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxvii. (1856) 221 And looked toward me with a sort of startled reproachfulness. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. v. 96 ‘You would leave me..’, said Mrs. Tregonell, with mild reproachfulness. |