单词 | self-accuser |
释义 | self-accusern. A person who accuses himself or herself. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > self-reproach > one who self-accusera1631 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 41 (heading) A selfe accuser. 1695 N. Vincent Cure Distractions iii. 193 The evil one will..make the Melancholick Man turn self-accuser, and consequently self-tormenter. 1728 T. Cooke tr. Hesiod Wks. & Days ii, in tr. Hesiod Wks. I. 147 If, repentant of his breach of trust, The self-accuser thinks your vengeance just. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 172 He confessed that all his valuable Qualities were ‘sloth-jaundiced’—and in his Letters is a bitter self-accuser. 1860 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 Nov. Suppl. 9/3 Consigned to the prisons till they could bethink themselves of their crimes, and become self-accusers. 1914 A. Bennett Price of Love xvi. 312 She had the impartial logic of the self-accuser. 1958 Classical Jrnl. 53 226/1 Oedipus is horrified at having been his own self-accuser, but he does not therefore retract the accusation. 2014 Independent (Nexis) 27 Apr. (Features section) 20 He's a self-deceiver, but too smart not to know that; a self-accuser, but always quick to forgive himself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1631 |
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