self-accusingn.
/ˌsɛlfəˈkjuːzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfəˈkjuzɪŋ/ Now rare.
The action or an act of accusing 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
1602 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsody sig. E To want what one deserues..takes away all selfe-accusing.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. iii. 366 The self-accusing of some is as little to be credited, as the self-praising of others.
1657 R. Baxter Treat. Conversion (new ed.) 15 His sobbs and sighs, and his deep self-accusings will tell you that he Believeth it [sc. the word of God].
1835 Young Man's Sunday Bk. 279 Infidelity..can give no peace to the self-accusing within,—not even a momentary respite.
1840 Ladies' Cabinet Aug. 109 Reform is fully as needful as regret or self-accusings.
1894 A. Whyte S. Rutherford i. 7 His self-discoveries and self-accusings.
2012 S. Ben-Noam in J. L. Kleinberg Wiley-Blackwell Handbk. Group Psychotherapy ii. xxi. 414 Changes in perception are noted in ongoing guilt, shame and self-accusing, as well as idealizing of the abuser.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
self-accusingadj.
/ˌsɛlfəˈkjuːzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfəˈkjuzɪŋ/ That accuses himself or herself; characterized by or involving self-accusation or self-reproach.
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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
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. Aa3 Then held she her tongue, and cast downe a self-accusing looke.
a1632 T. Taylor Christs Victorie over Dragon (1633) 40 The pinching and shaking terrours of a mans self-accusing conscience.
1695 O. Heywood New Creature xiv. 190 Is it possible that he that's a New Creature, should have a self-accusing, self-condemning Conscience?
1749 J. Milner Rest & Reward Good Men at Death 26 The pains of a self accusing mind.
1794 True Briton 12 July Deserted as he is by all good men, we pity him for the severe and self-accusing reflections which must hourly crowd into his mind.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 317 The walls of the confessional are privy to the whispers of self-accusing guilt.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xx. 347 A self-accusing cry that her feeling of desolation was the fault of her own spiritual poverty.
1902 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 48 493 Eight months afterwards she..was acutely depressed, self-accusing, and actively suicidal.
1985 O. Sacks Man who mistook Wife xix. 157 The punitive violence of Donald's self-accusing superego has been mitigated, and the gentler scales of the ego now hold court.
2006 Times 26 Oct. (Times2 section) 21/4 Timothy West..gives a fine performance: baffled, self-accusing, sly, needy and..touchingly tender.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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