different between blame vs disapprobation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Vulgar Latin *blast?m?re, present active infinitive of *blast?m?, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasph?m?, ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Replaced common use of native wite (“blame, guilt, wrongdoing, offense, fine, punishment”) (from Middle English w?tan, from Middle English w?te). Doublet of blaspheme.

Noun

blame (uncountable)

1. Censure.

   Blame came from all directions.

2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

   The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

   They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

4. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

Derived terms

• blame game
• put the blame on

Translations

See also

• fault

Etymology 2

From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasph?m? (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English w?ten, from Old English w?tan).

Verb

blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)

1. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].

   • 1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace:

     That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.

   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 106:

     I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.

2. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.

3. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

   The arsonist was blamed for the fire.

Synonyms

• (censure; criticize): reproach, shend, take to task, upbraid
• (consider that someone is the cause of something negative): hold to account

Derived terms

• blamer, be to blame

Translations

Anagrams

• Amble, Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, amble, belam, melba

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French blasme, a deverbal noun from blasmer (“to criticise”).

Alternative forms

• blam (rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?m(?)/

Noun

blame (uncountable)

1. criticism, condemnation
2. accusation (especially legal)
3. blame, culpability
4. offence, misdeed
5. imperfection, downside
6. disrepute, dishonour
7. blasphemy, irreverence

Descendants

• English: blame
• Scots: blame

References

• “bl?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

blame

1. Alternative form of blamen

Walloon

Noun

blame f (plural blames)

1. flame

   Synonym: flame

English

Etymology

dis- +? approbation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?æp???be???n/

Noun

disapprobation (countable and uncountable, plural disapprobations)

1. An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book 13, Chapter 6,^[1]

     Though a gentle sigh, which stole from the bosom of Nancy, seemed to argue some secret disapprobation of these sentiments, she did not dare openly to oppose them.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 22,^[2]

     Elizabeth would wonder, and probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be shaken, her feelings must be hurt by such disapprobation.

   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Chapter IV,^[3]

     And not only these acts, but the dispositions which lead to them, are properly immoral, and fit subjects of disapprobation which may rise to abhorrence.

   • 1921, D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, Chapter I,^[4]

     No one seems to think so, however. Yet they view my arrival with a knapsack on my back with cold disapprobation, as unseemly as if I had arrived riding on a pig. I ought to be in a carriage, and the knapsack ought to be a new suitcase.

Antonyms

• approbation

Related terms

• disapproval
• disapprove

Translations

Further reading

• disapprobation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disapprobation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• disapprobation at OneLook Dictionary Search