RECRIMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recrimination mean? 

• RECRIMINATION (noun)
  The noun RECRIMINATION has 1 sense:

1. mutual accusations

  Familiarity information: RECRIMINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECRIMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mutual accusations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("recrimination" is a kind of...):

accusal; accusation (a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt)

 Context examples 

Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But these recriminations, twice mentioned in his skeleton biography, could only mean that he was a fanatic in science.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, it was equally certain that, immediately on her return, she had gone to the room in which she was least likely to see her husband, had flown to tea as an agitated woman will, and finally, on his coming in to her, had broken into violent recriminations.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I might have had more difficulty in constraining myself to be silent under his words, if I had had less difficulty in impressing upon Peggotty (who was only angry on my account, good creature!) that we were not in a place for recrimination, and that I besought her to hold her peace.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)