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1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 54 King Charles..did not discern any thing in the accriminations, of so horrid import as might blemish his owning him [sc. Buckingham].

1676 Sad Relation Dreadful Fire 3 A very imprudent accrimination.

1816 Port Folio July 36 But the important article of accrimination, is the sensuality of Socrates.

1880 Harper's Mag. Mar. 632/1 The author of The Leavenworth Case has written another romance, based..upon the strange and sudden disappearance of one of the leading personages from the scene, and depicting the anxieties, embarrassments, suspicions, accriminations, and efforts for discovery that are caused by it.

1922 Q. Oregon Hist. Soc. 21 126 The discussion in the press was bitter, not to say vitriolic. Accrimination and recrimination were hurled impartially from both sides.

1998 S. S. Shashi Encycl. Indica VII. ii. 42 The present day world situation when mutual accriminations, jealousies, internecine quarrels, factionalism, sectarianism and party-politics etc. are eating into the vitals of the nation everywhere.