Word Meanings - DISCOMMENDATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Blame; censure; reproach. Ayliffe.
Related words: (words related to DISCOMMENDATION)
- REPROACHER
One who reproaches. - CENSURER
One who censures. Sha. - BLAME
LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. - BLAMER
One who blames. Wyclif. - REPROACH
LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. I thought your - CENSURE
1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. - REPROACHFUL
1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Syn. - REPROACHLESS
Being without reproach. - BLAMEFUL
1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n. - BLAMEWORTHY
Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n. - BLAMELESS
Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17. Syn. - BLAMELESSNESS
The quality or state of being blameless; innocence. - BLAMELESSLY
In a blameless manner. - REPROACHABLR
1. Deserving reproach; censurable. 2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. Sir T. Elyot. -- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv. - DISBLAME
To clear from blame. Chaucer. - IRREPROACHABLY
In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly. - IRREPROACHABLENESS
The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence. - MISCENSURE
To misjudge. Daniel. -- n. - SELF-REPROACHING
Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv. - SELF-REPROACH
The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience. - UNREPROACHABLE
Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable. - SELF-REPROACHED
Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment. - IRREPROACHABLE
Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. He erred, -- and who is free from error -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie. - LICENSURE
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