A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors.
As he moves towards a conclusion, he sounds an extended note of reproach.
Architecture also, with few exceptions, has long been our reproach.
But this only subjected me to reproach, as having a prepossession in his favour which I would not own.
The father looked at Mary with a reproach that was pathetic.
Before that grieved organ-tone of reproach, Kitty's eyes filled.
Tell me that you submit to my arguments, and do not reproach me for using such.
He decided, for his own peace of mind, that he had nothing with which to reproach himself.
But I will not reproach the dead; her punishment came all too swiftly.
Would that the conduct of England had been at this time free from reproach!
mid-14c., "a rebuke, blame, censure;" also "object of scorn or contempt;" c.1400, as "disgrace, state of disgrace," from Old French reproche "blame, shame, disgrace" (12c.), from reprochier "to blame, bring up against," said by some French etymologists to be from Vulgar Latin *repropiare, from Latin re- "opposite of" + prope "near" (see propinquity), with suggestions of "bring near to" as in modern "get in (someone's) face." But others would have it from *reprobicare, from Latin reprobus/reprobare (see reprobate (adj.)).
mid-14c., reprochen "to rebuke, reproach," from Anglo-French repruchier, Old French reprochier "upbraid, blame, accuse, speak ill of," from reproche (see reproach (n.)). Related: Reproached; reproaching.
