self-accusationn.
/ˌsɛlfakjᵿˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˌækjəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌsɛlfˌækjuˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action of accusing oneself; an accusation made against oneself.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > self-reproach
self-condemnation1591
self-accusing1602
self-reproving1608
self-accusation1616
self-reproofa1631
self-reflection1656
self-reproach1683
self-reproachment1802
self-reproval1823
self-reproachingness1850
guilt trip1972
1616 S. Page Allegeance of Cleargie 12 Our Soueraigne..doth not make bare suspition quarrell enough to..imprison, racke, and torture men, to force them to selfe-accusation.
1662 E. Lake (title) Memoranda: touching the Oath Ex Officio, pretended Self-accusation, and Canonical Purgation.
a1716 W. Wycherley Posthumous Wks. (1728) I. 35 His Self-Accusation calls his Sense in Question.
1742 S. Richardson Pamela (ed. 2) IV. viii. 41 Too liberal Self-accusations are generally but so many Traps for Acquittal with Applause.
1816 J. Jebb Let. 29 Mar. in C. Forster Life J. Jebb (1836) II. 237 It is not without self-displicency, and self-accusation, that I look upon..your letter, written so many weeks since.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xvi. 229 The depth of his self-accusation and repentance,..in a time of severe sickness.
1939 E. Glover Psycho-anal. iv. 34 When deep guilt erupts, as in the depressive psychoses, we find that the self-accusations are not justified in reality.
2004 Independent 19 June i. 15/1 The former President's curious burst of philosophical self-accusation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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