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self-repellency |
self-repelling |
self-repetition |
self-report inventory |
self-report personality inventory |
self-reproach
| self-reproached
| self-reproaching
| self-reproof
| self-reproved
| self-reproving
self-reproach
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun self-reproach has 2 senses
- self-reproach(n = noun.feeling) compunction, remorse - a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); Array is a kind of regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrow
- self-reproach(n = noun.communication) self-reproof - the act of blaming yourself; Array is a kind of reproach
has particulars: guilt, guilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty conscience, penance, penitence, repentance
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-reproach, n.
The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-reproach, n. reproach or blame directed at oneself.
Derivative
self-reproachful adj.
ROGET THESAURUS
self-reproach
Penitence
N penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse, regret, self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation, stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience, compunctious visitings of nature, acknowledgment, confession, apology, recantation, penance, resipiscence, awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool, penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man, penitent, repenting, repentant, contrite, conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken, self-accusing, self-convicted, penitential, penitentiary, reclaimed, reborn, not hardened, unhardened, mea culpa, peccavi, erubuit, salva res est, Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin, and wet his grave with my repentant tears.
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