Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who reproaches.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who reproaches.

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  • noun One who reproaches.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who finds fault or imputes blame

Etymologies

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reproach +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Even this moment would I give the world to push the cruel reproacher from me by one ray of my usual gayety! —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • To the reproacher, he replies that he only cures evildoers, but those become blind at once who reproached him.

    The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907

  • Yes, my sweet reproacher, in a woman I do; in a woman I think it intolerable.

    Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778

  • "What I then said, my sweet reproacher, was the effect of a mistaken, a profane idea, that your understanding held no competition with your beauty; but now, now that I find you equally incomparable in both, all words, all powers of speech, are too feeble to express the admiration I feel of your excellencies."

    Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778

  • The best place of retirement he had, but it could not hide him from the eye of the ungodly; it is not therefore thy secret chamber, nor thy lurking in holes, that will hide thee from the eye of the reproacher: nothing can do this but righteousness, goodness, sobriety and faithfulness to

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • "What I then said, my sweet reproacher, was the effect of a mistaken,

    Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Fanny Burney 1796

  • "Yes, my sweet reproacher, in a woman I do; in a woman I think it intolerable.

    Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Fanny Burney 1796

  • “What I then said, my sweet reproacher, was the effect of

    Evelina 1778

  • “Yes, my sweet reproacher, in a woman I do; in a woman I think it intolerable.

    Evelina 1778

  • Thus, Ben Sira explains the sin as that of anger into which the reproacher will otherwise fall while Testament of Gad explains it as that of the person being rebuked, who through proper rebuke may confess and make peace but with improper kind of rebuke, may be led into additional sins. [

    avakesh 2009

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