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self-reˈproach
[self- 1 a.]
Reproach of oneself.
1754Richardson Grandison III. 3 Dear Miss Grandison, don't give me cause for self-reproach. 1779Mirror No. 50 ⁋4 A conscious blush of shame and self-reproach. 1797Wordsw. Old Cumb. Beggar 136 Men who can hear the Decalogue and feel No self-reproach. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxxiv. 354 The English monopolist had no self-reproach for prohibiting the industry of the colonists.
So self-reˈproached ppl. a., self-reˈproachful a., self-reˈproaching ppl. a. (hence self-reˈproachingly, -reˈproachingness).
1829Southey Sir T. More II. 111 Such a man may live *self-reproached.
1869P. Landreth Adam Thomson ii. 77 Disappointed, depressed, desponding, and fiercely *self-reproachful.
1784Cowper Task v. 600 *Self-reproaching conscience. 1848Keble Serm. Pref. p. xxix, To help him to assuage his self-reproaching thoughts.
1847–54Webster, *Self-reproachingly, by reproaching one's self.
1850Fraser's Mag. XLII. 139 The weary..loathsome *self-reproachingness of idleness.
1890Talmage From Manger to Throne 306 His *self-reproachment for doubting the words of Christ. |