self-reproach
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editself-reproach (countable and uncountable, plural self-reproaches)
- Blame or condemnation directed at the self, as by the conscience.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
- Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
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edit- See also Thesaurus:remorse