- reproach (n.)
- mid-14c., "a rebuke, a reproach;" also "object of scorn or contempt;" c.1400, as "disgrace, state of disgrace," from Old French reproche (12c.), from reprocher "to blame, bring up against," said by some French etymologists to be from Vulgar Latin *repropiare, from Latin re- "opposite of" + prope "near" (see propinquity). But others suggest *reprobicare, from Latin reprobus/reprobare (see reprobate).
- reproach (v.)
- mid-14c., reprochen "to rebuke, reproach," from Old French reprochier, Anglo-French repruchier, from reproche (see reproach (n.)). Related: Reproached; reproaching.