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noun

Reproach n.

1.

The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach. "No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain." "Give not thine heritage to reproach."

2.

A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

3.

An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision. "Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach."

Synonyms: Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame; scandal;; disgrace; infamy.

verb

Reproach v. t. (past & past part. reproached; pres. part. reproaching)

1.

To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. (Obs.) "I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life."

2.

To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ." "That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean." "Mezentius... with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors."

Synonyms: To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify.

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"Reproach" Quotes from Famous Books

... You continued to govern Ireland during many generations as you had governed Scotland in the days of Lauderdale and Dundee. And see the result. Ireland has remained, indeed, a part of your Empire. But you know her to be a source of weakness rather than of strength. Her misery is a reproach to you. Her discontent doubles the dangers of war. Can you, with such facts before you, doubt about the course which you ought to take? Imagine a physician with two patients, both afflicted with the same disease. He applies the same sharp remedies ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... talking?" she said with grave reproach, and left him to the care of Mrs. Basset, whose comfortable and stolid personality did not ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... our mind, one of the happiest creatures in God's creation. Now that the race of wandering minstrels has passed away, your painter is the only free joyous denizen of the earth, who can give way to his natural impulses without fear of reproach, and who can indulge his enthusiasm for the bright and beautiful to the utmost. He has his troubles, no doubt; for he is ambitious, and too often he is poor; but it is something to pursue ambition along the natural path with unwarped energies, and ardent and sincere devotion. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various

... insincerity that seems to hang about enthusiasm is, after all, nothing but illusion. To be just we should discount this illusion in advance as the wise man discounts discouragement. And the epithet for the man whose lungs are large with the breath of life should cease to be a term of reproach. ...

— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... expedition Winthrop not only violated the articles of confederation and the laws of neutrality, but exposed himself to the reproach of Endicott and some of the more straitlaced elders, that he consorted with "idolators" and "antichrists," as Puritans chose to call Roman Catholics. It seems that Winthrop and his Boston friends did not intend to do more than to restore ...

— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler

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