self-reˈproach
[self- 1 a.]
Reproach of oneself.
| 1754 Richardson Grandison III. 3 Dear Miss Grandison, don't give me cause for self-reproach. 1779 Mirror No. 50 ¶4 A conscious blush of shame and self-reproach. 1797 Wordsw. Old Cumb. Beggar 136 Men who can hear the Decalogue and feel No self-reproach. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxxiv. 354 The English monopolist had no self-reproach for prohibiting the industry of the colonists. |
So
self-reˈproached ppl. a.,
self-reˈproachful a.,
self-reˈproaching ppl. a. (hence
self-reˈproachingly,
-reˈproachingness).
| 1829 Southey Sir T. More II. 111 Such a man may live *self-reproached. |
| 1869 P. Landreth Adam Thomson ii. 77 Disappointed, depressed, desponding, and fiercely *self-reproachful. |
| 1784 Cowper Task v. 600 *Self-reproaching conscience. 1848 Keble Serm. Pref. p. xxix, To help him to assuage his self-reproaching thoughts. |
| 1847–54 Webster, *Self-reproachingly, by reproaching one's self. |
| 1850 Fraser's Mag. XLII. 139 The weary..loathsome *self-reproachingness of idleness. |
| 1890 Talmage From Manger to Throne 306 His *self-reproachment for doubting the words of Christ. |