reproacher

Updated: May 13, 2025

Now, my reproacher, I do by all this Show how thou may'st possess thyself of bliss: Thou art worse than a spider, but take hold On Christ the door, thou shalt not be controll'd.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

"What I then said, my sweet reproacher, was the effect of a mistaken, a profane idea, that your understanding held no competition with your beauty; but now, now that I find you equally incomparable in both, all words, all powers of speech, are too feeble to express the admiration I feel of your excellencies."

Fanny Burney - Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Selwyn, indeed, afforded some relief from this formality, but the unbounded license of her tongue-" "O, Sir Clement, do you object to that?" "Yes, my sweet reproacher, in a woman I do; in a woman I think it intolerable.

Fanny Burney - Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World