Definition of "reproaches" []

• Plural form of reproach. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reproach. (verb)

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• "Berlin reproaches Arnold Toynbee and Edward Gibbon for seeing “nations” and “civilizations” as “more concrete” than the individuals who embody them, and for seeing abstractions like “tradition” and “history” as “wiser than we.”"
• "The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public."
• "88 The vain reproaches of an ignorant multitude hastened the downfall of the Roman empire; they provoked the desperate rashness of Valens; who did not find, either in his reputation or in his mind, any motives to support with firmness the public contempt."