reproachment

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US/ɹɪˈpɹəʊt͡ʃ.mənt/

noun

An upbraiding criticism or rebuke.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounreproachment (countable and uncountable, plural reproachments)

plural reproachments

  1. countableuncountableAn upbraiding criticism or rebuke.

    The statement was made as a fact with no reproachment indicated.

    2002, Walter A. Turner, Sexuality, Fancy's Way, https://books.google.ru/books?id=xiVVtC_41NIC&pg=PA469&dq=reproachment&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl9oKO9_fLAhXTKCwKHYUsC784FBDoAQhBMAc#v=onepage&q=reproachment&f=false
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    The collective reproachment of Naomi during the course of this experience illustrates the many ways in which female sexuality can be seen as culpable.

    2002, Mary Jane Kehily, Sexuality, Gender and Schooling: Shifting Agendas in Social Learning, https://books.google.ru/books?id=AmNb2LJfaOMC&pg=PA71&dq=reproachment&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl9oKO9_fLAhXTKCwKHYUsC784FBDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=reproachment&f=false

    I laughed and said, “I, myself, am a prince. And you dare to speak to me of reproachment."

    2008, P. D. Fraley, Mortal Bounds, https://books.google.ru/books?id=cK5hVFra8I0C&pg=PT82&dq=reproachment&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt06mI9ffLAhUI3SwKHZk7A9E4ChDoAQgoMAM#v=onepage&q=reproachment&f=false

    Even with all of Sophie's congestion, her reproachment came through quite clearly.

    2008, Karen White, The House on Tradd Street, https://books.google.ru/books?id=IHY3U-117EsC&pg=PT203&dq=reproachment&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl9oKO9_fLAhXTKCwKHYUsC784FBDoAQgxMAQ#v=onepage&q=reproachment&f=false'

    On a narrow understanding, you might have most reason to reproach yourself for locking your keys in the car even though doing so is entirely permissible. On a wider understanding, you might do something impermissible, but fail to have reason to reproach yourself because of a good excuse. Even if there is a sense of reproachment that is just right, a second problem is that this analysis would seem to get things backwards, for what makes it the case that A ought to be reproached by his conscience, at least in some cases, is that he has done something impermissible, in which case impermissibility cannot be reduced to reasons to reproach.

    2011, Russ Shafer-Landau, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6, https://books.google.ru/books?id=Sw1vCXzAILYC&pg=PA137&dq=reproachment&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjontak9vfLAhVL1ywKHY9tCvEQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=reproachment&f=false

Origin

Equivalent to reproach (“to upbraid, scold”) + -ment (“the result of”). More at reproach.

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APA

reproachment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reproachment

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“reproachment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reproachment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reproachment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reproachment.

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