accuser
noun
a person who accuses, especially in a court of law.
self-accuser
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a word derived from
accuser.
Example Sentences
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He stands before us timorous and shrinking, the accuser of his fellows turned self-accuser, a beggar stretching forth empty, trembling hands imploring forgiveness of his sins and the salvation of his soul through gracious mediation.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
Although it was necessary to the cause of truth, that I should, in some degree, implicate myself, I have not hesitated to appear as a voluntary self-accuser before the world.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
Further study of this self-accuser showed that he had been punished by the law every year since he was 16.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy
But it is extremely improbable that the wary P. T. should have wantonly turned self-accuser.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
The scruples that come of thinking of the event, Hamlet certainly had: that they were craven scruples, that his thinking was too precise, I deny to the face of the noble self-accuser.
From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
