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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
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Examples
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								Virginia now, and I confess I almost felt self-reproached when you said that you were perfectly satisfied with my promise not to join the Southern Army "without my father's consent." 
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								If you are self-reproached in the midst of a religious excitement, you will find that you will be almost induced to give up your own personality to please some one whom you hold in reverent esteem. What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams 1901 
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								"God grant it!" responded the captain with a groan, self-reproached for the little faith beside the strong desire. A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864 
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								She could not reconcile the solecism of loving two men at once; and though her feelings had been as spontaneous as Nature itself, she was self-reproached with unfaithfulness and wrong. 
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								"Paul is very patient," said Faith -- not lightly, as Margaret had spoken, but as one self-reproached, almost, for abusing patience -- "and they go to-morrow to Lake George. 
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