1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. i Songes and plaies and enterludes..for the rebuking and reproching of vices.

1583 G. Babington Briefe Conf. Frailtie & Faith 128 Welcome I say y^e crosse in generall, and persecution for trueth all or part, as it pleaseth God, & welcome in particular this kinde of crosse, if so our God will, reuilings reprochinges, reportings false and vniust.

1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxix. 28 These things are grieuous to a man of vnderstanding: the vpbraiding of house-roome, and reproching of the lender. View more context for this quotation

1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 58 For the reproaching, let them answer that are guilty.

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 66 These..fall..to bitter and scurrilous reprochings.

1708 Tender Invitation 27 In all my Trials and Exercises, as Stoneings, Stockings, Reproachings and Imprisonings, and taking away of my Goods, the Lord did still stand by me.

1752 R. Baron Pillars of Priestcraft & Orthodoxy Shaken II. 327 The thirtieth of January;—a day sacred to the..reproaching of those who are not of the established church.

1836 Gentleman's Mag. July 8 The spectator cannot interest himself in the gloomy reproachings of the murderer's conscience.

1860 G. M. Flanders Ebony Idol vi. 55 A low moan of anguish burst from the lips of Edward, and smote with reproachings the heart of the kneeling mother.

1907 E. T. Thurston Katherine xxxiii. 323 No sound of the reproaching of fate passed her lips.

1951 E. Gilson Heloise & Abelard (1960) vi. 98 Her obstinate reproaching of God has no other cause. It is only intelligible as an expression of spiritual misery.

1997 New Republic (Nexis) 15 Dec. 37 All this reproaching and rebuking seems to have left its leading critics little energy for appreciating liberalism's achievements.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 692/2 You falsly belye me in this, for detrudyng and tomblyng out of heauen Anatholius, Iulianus, Clarus, Lucianus, Agatha, Dorothea and other, agaynst whom I neuer yet spake any reprochyng worde.

1638 David's Troubles Remembred iv. f. 37 The son of mine own bowels seeks my right, And life; Then much more may this Benjamite, With false reproaching scandals me defame.

1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vii. v. 137 See England's Monarch, styling himself yit For deeds long past King of the Holy Towne, The filthy Ismaelite possessing it (What a reproaching Title to a Crowne!)

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxix. 169 My Lady said, None of your reproaching Eye, Pamela; I know what you hint at.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 465 She look'd at him With a reproaching eye of tenderness.

1817 A. Bonar Serm. II. xv. 319 The cruel desertions of reproaching kindred.

1867 Ladies' Repository May 324/1 Under the clear blue heavens, the reproaching stars, I sank down in the sea of a most human passion, and its wild waves closed over me.

1937 Times 1 Oct. 15/2 Those who base themselves on such narrow considerations are..not entitled to point a reproaching finger at States which are carrying far greater responsibilities.

1988 I. McDonald Desolation Road vi. 32 Grandfather Haran would have loved to have gone and earned himself reproaching glances every time the Babooshka caught him glancing wistfully out toward the light and the noise.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. xix. 112 Afterwards he heapeth up many frivolous arguments against that which he calleth reproachingly, The Idle Permission of sin.

1791 C. Smith Celestina I. 27 [His mother], who seemed to look at him reproachingly.

1826 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 136/2 She..looked upon him so reproachingly, that he shrunk from his purpose.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. ix. 299 ‘Unless she be really ill’..said her mother reproachingly.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Oct. a15 Religious tradition says God spoke reproachingly to Moses from a burning bush.

2003 Alameda (Calif.) Times-Star (Nexis) 4 Apr. Reality is my wheezy cat, reproachingly aloof one minute and desperate for my affection the next.