An admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be.

synoniem: self-condemnation.

Roget 950: penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret etc. 833.    self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience^†, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature^†.    acknowledgment, confession etc. (disclosure) 529; apology etc. 952; recantation etc. 607; penance etc. 952; resipiscence^†.    awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae [Lat.], stool of repentance, cuttystool^†.    penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge]. ... meer laten zien

Pools: samooskarżenie