self-reprovingn.
/ˌsɛlfrᵻˈpruːvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfrəˈpruvɪŋ/ Now rare.
The action or an act of reproving oneself; (a) self-reproof.
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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
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxii. 4 He's full of abdication And selfe reprouing . View more context for this quotation
1676 B. Stonham Parable Ten Virgins Opened 311 Gentle self-reprovings are wont to end in sad Relapses.
1742 tr. M. Aurelius Meditations viii. 188 Repentance is a self-reproving, because we have neglected something useful.
1823 ‘B. Cornwall’ Flood of Thessaly 232 She..so blended Her self-reprovings with such merry mocks, That some believed she feigned.
2012 R. Boyson Wordsworth & Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure iii. 148 Wordsworth's editors suggest that the passage from the self-reproving up to the Verse Prospectus was added in 1806.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
self-reprovingadj.
/ˌsɛlfrᵻˈpruːvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfrəˈpruvɪŋ/ 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
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Self-reproving (adj.), reproving one's self.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham I. xvii. 251 That imputation of guilt, which the self-reproving spirit would not suffer to lie dormant.
1857 M. S. Cummins Mabel Vaughan xxx. 350 She sat down beside her and said, in a self-reproving tone, ‘Ah! I should not have let you come here alone.’
1904 Washington Post 9 Oct. 5/4 He looked self reproving.
2015 M. Spender House in St John's Wood 93 From his cabin on the Queen Mary, he wrote his wife a long, self-reproving letter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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