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- noun Plural form of
reproach . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reproach .
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Examples
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Berlin reproaches Arnold Toynbee and Edward Gibbon for seeing “nations” and “civilizations” as “more concrete” than the individuals who embody them, and for seeing abstractions like “tradition” and “history” as “wiser than we.”
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Berlin reproaches Arnold Toynbee and Edward Gibbon for seeing “nations” and “civilizations” as “more concrete” than the individuals who embody them, and for seeing abstractions like “tradition” and “history” as “wiser than we.”
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Berlin reproaches Arnold Toynbee and Edward Gibbon for seeing “nations” and “civilizations” as “more concrete” than the individuals who embody them, and for seeing abstractions like “tradition” and “history” as “wiser than we.”
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Berlin reproaches Arnold Toynbee and Edward Gibbon for seeing “nations” and “civilizations” as “more concrete” than the individuals who embody them, and for seeing abstractions like “tradition” and “history” as “wiser than we.”
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The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.
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88 The vain reproaches of an ignorant multitude hastened the downfall of the Roman empire; they provoked the desperate rashness of Valens; who did not find, either in his reputation or in his mind, any motives to support with firmness the public contempt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Ah, it is only a mockery, calling reproaches upon you from all the good, and the reproof of Heaven for your ingratitude!
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Lord Hailes's name reproaches me; but if he saw my languid neglect of my own affairs, he would rather pity than resent my neglect of his.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Lord Hailes's name reproaches me; but if he saw my languid neglect of my own affairs, he would rather pity than resent my neglect of his.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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The sufferings of Christ contain every kind of reproaches and torments, both of soul and body, which were inflicted on him partly by the fury of his enemies, and partly by the immediate chastisement of his Father.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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