▪ I. reˈproaching, vbl. n.
[f. reproach v. + -ing1.]
The action of reproving or upbraiding.
| 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. i, Songes and plaies and enterludes..for the rebuking and reproching of vices. 1611 Bible Ecclus. xxix. 28 These things are grieuous to a man of vnderstanding: the vpbraiding of house-roome, and reproching of the lender. 1648 Milton Observ. Art. Peace Ormond Wks. 1851 IV. 572 For the reproaching, let them answer that are guilty. 1656 Artif. Handsom. 66 These..fall..to bitter and scurrilous reprochings. |
▪ II. reˈproaching, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That reproaches; upbraiding.
| 1742 Richardson Pamela III. 169 My Lady said, None of your reproaching Eye, Pamela; I know what you hint at. 1795 Southey Joan of Arc iv. 465 She look'd at him With a reproaching eye of tenderness. 1817 A. Bonar Serm. II. xv. 319 The cruel desertions of reproaching kindred. |
Hence reˈproachingly adv., in a reproaching manner; reproachfully.
| 1791 C. Smith Celestina (ed. 2) I. 27 [His mother], who seemed to look at him reproachingly. 1826 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 136/2 She..looked upon him so reproachingly, that he shrunk from his purpose. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths ix, ‘Unless she be really ill’..said her mother reproachingly. |