单词 | self-accusatory |
释义 | self-accusatoryadj. Characterized by or involving self-accusation. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [adjective] > self-reproaching self-accusinga1586 self-condemninga1586 self-accused1626 self-reproaching1708 self-reproacheda1740 self-reproved1765 self-reproving1775 self-reproachful1796 self-condemnating1801 self-accusatory1820 self-condemnatory1823 self-condemnant1846 1820 Bristol Mercury 21 Aug. Vain and self-accusatory regret that a vigilance was not awakened that might have warded off the fatal blow. 1836 J. Foster Let. 26 Aug. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 309 This self-accusatory recollection. 1891 Harvard Law Rev. 5 26 Let us assume, then, that the fifth amendment guarantees the privilege against compulsory self-accusatory evidence. 1969 Antioch Rev. Spring 24 Such truth doesn't belong to the new journalism; the mode is too uniformly blackish and self-accusatory. 2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Sept. c9 Periodically, Caravaggio's own tormented face appears among the figures in his paintings, thus suggesting a subtly confessional and even self-accusatory aspect to his work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1820 |
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