Reproach \Re*proach"\ (r?-pr?ch"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reproached} (-pr?cht"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reproaching}.] [F. reprocher, OF. reprochier, (assumed) LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. {Approach}.] 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. [Obs.]
I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life. --Shak.
2. To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. --1 Peter iv. 14.
That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. --Milton.
Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors. --Dryden.
Syn: To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify.
Reproach \Re*proach"\, n. [F. reproche. See {Reproach}, v.] 1. The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain. --Macaulay.
Give not thine heritage to reproach. --Joel ii. 17.
2. A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
3. An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. --Neh. ii. 17.
We are accused of corruption and self-enrichment at the expense of the people," Honecker said. "But Margot and I have nothing to reproach ourselves with.
Bush's decision to sign a trade pact with Gorbachev without first winning concessions on Lithuania has drawn reproach from both parties.
Now, thanks to this latest collection of lecture circuit offerings, a new generation has the chance to evaluate Illich for themselves. To call Illich utopian is no reproach.
THE CALL OF THE TOAD by Gunter Grass Secker & Warburg Pounds 14.99, 248 pages THE PROFESSOR hero of Gunter Grass's new novel is nicknamed Jeremiah, a reproach often levelled at his creator.
"When the surgeon general puts his Good Housekeeping seal of approval on a set of scientific facts, it is beyond reproach," says Jay Winsten, assistant dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
President Bush today urged top federal executives to help fulfill his quest for an administration beyond ethical reproach, where government service is seen as "a noble calling." "There is a mandate to fulfill.
"If an organ is discredited by true information that is revealed and objectively a loss of faith occurs as a result of unconstitutional, illegal or criminal actions, in that sense there can be no moral or criminal reproach," Yakovlev said.
"In dealing with black and Hispanic young people, I teach them they have to be beyond reproach, people have to look at them and immediately know they are dealing with a good young person," said Mickens, who is black.
While SEC enforcement officials won't talk about the letters, Commissioner Edward Fleischman yesterday issued a scathing reproach to his own agency, arguing that it had basically gone back on its word to Wall Street that similar stock sales were fine.
Meanwhile St Peter's still stands to reproach them all.
But even Moslem officers say Aoun's personal integrity is beyond reproach.
It remains a reproach that about a third of the seats were not filled.
Bush did say Meese would not hold the top law enforcement post in a Bush administration. "It seems to me that the Justice Department has to be above reproach.
The Christian Democrats have not commented on the reported reproach, but many high-ranking party leaders confirmed the existence of the Krause letter, the newspaper said.