Definition of "reproachfulness" [reproachfulness]

• The state or quality of being reproachful. (noun)

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• "She withdrew into the coach again, and he saw the hand waving towards him for a moment; but whether in reproachfulness or incredulity or misery, or grief, or sad adieu, or what else, he could not, being so hurried, understand."
• "Christians -- British, as it happens -- went and ruined my shtick, my reproachfulness."
• "Then, in 1997, a couple of eccentric, septuagenarian British Christians went and ruined my shtick - my reproachfulness."