A formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt.
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Even Mrs. Cary's coarse nature stood baffled before this pitiless, dignified self-accusal.
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Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips.
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She could not hear this dreadful accusal from the very pulpit.
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She could face his accusal if only he could give the reason for it.
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An impulse of self-accusal drove Glennard to the window.
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Olive asked steadily, although her cheeks were burning with the truth of his implied accusal.
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The girl's spirit could not rest under the false accusal that had caused her death.
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A trace of kindness or dry humour in his tone would have compelled Iskender to confess the truth, with self-accusal.
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The naked feet with their grey convulsed toes stared into the communication trench like things robbed, with a mute accusal.
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But when she lifted the latch of the gate, a sensation, prompted by some unwitting self-accusal, struck her with alarm.
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At one time he wrought so strongly upon the Indians through their superstition of witchcraft, that they put many to death at his accusal.
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Such calumnies and grave accusals did they heap upon his head that by the end the old man came himself to think his treasons actual.
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"Somebody gave it away to you," was Bert's prompt accusal, when Graham rose to the surface of the tank and climbed out.
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Even Mrs. Cary's coarse nature stood baffled before this pitiless, dignified self-accusal.
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Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips.
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She could not hear this dreadful accusal from the very pulpit.