Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reproving one's self.
- noun Self-reproach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.
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Examples
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Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to sooth, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
The New Beginning papabear 2008
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Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to sooth, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008
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With a self-reproving shake of her head, she quit looking.
Terms Of Surrender Janet Dailey 1982
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With a self-reproving shake of her head, she quit looking.
Terms Of Surrender Janet Dailey 1982
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But the contemptuous exterior hid a self-reproving heart, and he felt how far more worthy Owen and Montagu were than he.
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Just and self-reproving thoughts do not come to us too thickly, even in the purest air and with the best lessons of heaven and earth; how should those white-winged delicate messengers make their way to Molly's poisoned chamber, inhabited by no higher memories than those of a barmaid's paradise of pink ribbons and gentlemen's jokes?
Silas Marner (1885) 1861
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"When you have been teaching all day already" -- she said in a tone between regretful and self-reproving.
Say and Seal, Volume I Susan Warner 1852
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Just and self-reproving thoughts do not come to us too thickly, even in the purest air, and with the best lessons of heaven and earth; how should those white-winged delicate messengers make their way to Molly's poisoned chamber, inhabited by no higher memories than those of a barmaid's paradise of pink ribbons and gentlemen's jokes?
Silas Marner George Eliot 1849
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Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and
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Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1833
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