self-reprovedadj.
/ˌsɛlfrᵻˈpruːvd/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfrəˈpruvd/ Reproved by oneself or one's own words; full of or characterized by self-reproof.
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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
1765 G. Colman tr. Terence Step-mother iv. ii. in tr. Terence Comedies 479 The time shall come, when he'll stand self-reprov'd.
1858 Youth's Compan. 29 Apr. 65/5 With a very self-reproved feeling, as if I had been detected in a wrong action, I drew in my head, and I know I blushed.
1963 Mod. Fiction Stud. 9 46 Ashburnham's spontaneous and self-reproved remark is to Dowell ‘the most monstrously wicked thing that Edward Ashburnham ever did in his life’.
2000 Rev. Eng. Stud. 51 613 The habit of mind for which the speaker was self-reproved in ‘Frost at Midnight’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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