SELF-REPROACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-reproach mean? 

• SELF-REPROACH (noun)
  The noun SELF-REPROACH has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

2. the act of blaming yourself

  Familiarity information: SELF-REPROACH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-REPROACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

compunction; remorse; self-reproach

Hypernyms ("self-reproach" is a kind of...):

regret; rue; ruefulness; sorrow (sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-reproach"):

guilt; guilt feelings; guilt trip; guilty conscience (remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense)

penance; penitence; repentance (remorse for your past conduct)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of blaming yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

self-reproach; self-reproof

Hypernyms ("self-reproach" is a kind of...):

reproach (a mild rebuke or criticism)

 Context examples 

Her affection for me deserved better treatment, and I often, with great self-reproach, recall the tenderness which, for a very short time, had the power of creating any return.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Sophy told me afterwards, that the self-reproach she underwent while she was in attendance upon Sarah, no words could describe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a guilty one.

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

If the latter, may it be taken as some sign of self-reproach for duty neglected?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had suffered, and he had learned to think: two advantages that he had never known before; and the self-reproach arising from the deplorable event in Wimpole Street, to which he felt himself accessory by all the dangerous intimacy of his unjustifiable theatre, made an impression on his mind which, at the age of six-and-twenty, with no want of sense or good companions, was durable in its happy effects.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had gone some way, lost in doubt and in self-reproach, his mind all tremulous with a thousand new-found thoughts and fears and wonderments, when of a sudden there was a light rustle of the leaves behind him, and, glancing round, there was this graceful, swift-footed creature, treading in his very shadow, with her proud head bowed, even as his was—the picture of humility and repentance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In making me the offer, you must have satisfied the delicacy of your feelings with regard to my family, and may take possession of Longbourn estate whenever it falls, without any self-reproach.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Whatever they may have been, however, she may now, and hereafter doubtless WILL turn with gratitude towards her own condition, when she compares it with that of my poor Eliza, when she considers the wretched and hopeless situation of this poor girl, and pictures her to herself, with an affection for him so strong, still as strong as her own, and with a mind tormented by self-reproach, which must attend her through life.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She looked so quiet and good, and reminded me so strongly of my airy fresh school days at Canterbury, and the sodden, smoky, stupid wretch I had been the other night, that, nobody being by, I yielded to my self-reproach and shame, and—in short, made a fool of myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)