单词 | self-reproach |
释义 | self-reproachn. 1. A cause or source of reproach or blame directed towards oneself. Cf. reproach n. 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1665 J. B. tr. P. Scarron Comical Romance xiv. 103 That I might leave nothing unassaid, which might prove a self reproach [Fr. pour n'auoir pas à me reprocher]. 1852 E. Jones Notes to People II. 1012/1 Mine is the glorious task to save you from yourself. Such a union could not be happy... You would be an eternal self-reproach to yourself. 1899 D. J. Snider Castle Esperance vi. i. 425 Her ridicule of the Doctor was unmeasured, she seemed specially to hate him, as the very thought of him was a continual self-reproach. 1907 Ohio Mag. Mar. 223/1 She was so wretched—if only Mark would allow her to go away for a while, things might be better, but to be near him was a constant self-reproach. 1938 Transcript of Interview with S. G. Hoover (Libr. of Congr: Amer. Life Hist.: MSS from Federal Writers' Project, 1936–40) An unfinished task is always a self reproach. 2. The action or fact of reproaching or blaming oneself; reproach directed towards oneself. Also (and in earliest use): an instance of this; a self-reproachful thought or utterance. ΘΚΠ 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 1683 R. Baxter Catechizing of Families xxxvi. 264 There is somewhat of an Imprecation or Self-reproach as the penalty of a Lye in every Oath. 1702 M. Sylvester Christian's Race & Patience I. i. 20 Neither did any of their Steps or Troubles bring them to Retractions or Recantings; nor minister unto Self-reproach. 1779 Mirror No. 50. ⁋4 A conscious blush of shame and self-reproach. 1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 158 Men who can hear the Decalogue and feel No self-reproach. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxxiv. 354 The English monopolist had no self-reproach for prohibiting the industry of the colonists. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xviii. 203 He was clicking his tongue in gentle self-reproach. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 649/2 To the depressive-prone individual, self-reproaches and self-destructive acts including suicide, come as a just atonement. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 292 Are you not overwhelmed with nausea and self-reproach? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1665 |
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