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self-accuˈsation
[self- 1 a.]
Accusation of oneself.
1662E. Lake (title) Memoranda: touching the Oath Ex Officio, pretended Self-accusation, and Canonical Purgation. a1716Wycherley Posth. Wks. I. (1728) 35 His Self-Accusation calls his Sense in Question. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. l. 380 Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. 1842Manning Serm. xvi. (1848) I. 229 The depth of his self-accusation and repentance,..in a time of severe sickness.
So self-aˈccusatory a., self-aˈccused ppl. a., self-aˈccuser, self-aˈccusing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1836J. Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 309 This *self-accusatory recollection.
1678Dryden All for Love iv. 51 This *self-accus'd, self-punish'd Criminal. 1872C. J. Vaughan Earnest Words (1878) 54 Self-accused, self-emptied, self-condemned.
a1631Donne Epigrams Poems (1639) 69 A *selfe-accuser.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. iii. 366 The *self-accusing of some is as little to be credited, as the self-praising of others. 1894A. Whyte Sam. Rutherford i. 7 His self-discoveries and self-accusings.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 179 Then held she her tongue, and cast downe a *self-accusing looke. 1839Hallam Lit. Eur. iii. iv. §5 The walls of the confessional are privy to the whispers of self-accusing guilt. |