self-accusatoryadj.
/ˌsɛlfəˈkjuːzət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfəˈkjuzəˌtɔri/ Characterized by or involving self-accusation.
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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).
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