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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recrimination
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mutual
▪ She brought Pilade into their bed and refused to send him out and the night was passed in mutual recriminations.
▪ This is because it is so good at avoiding runs of mutual recrimination.
▪ The stage was set for years of mutual mistrust and recrimination.
▪ This, as we have seen, helps to damp down what might otherwise become long and damaging runs of mutual recrimination.
▪ This means that runs of mutual recrimination are nipped in the bud.
▪ Hence the need to avoid mutual recriminations, facile accusations and scapegoats.
▪ We spend the rest of the night in mutual recrimination.
▪ Instead, there was the dreary return to mutual recrimination.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We promised each other there would be no recriminations if it didn't work out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so began a chain of events, of misunderstandings, laughter, anger, and bitter recrimination.
▪ In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations, directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers.
▪ She brought Pilade into their bed and refused to send him out and the night was passed in mutual recriminations.
▪ The confessions, recriminations and bubbling bile of this long night's drinking into dawn make for increasingly compulsive viewing.
▪ The discovery of unfaithfulness is followed by anger and recriminations, anguish and uncertainty.
▪ This is because it is so good at avoiding runs of mutual recrimination.
▪ When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season, the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recrimination

Recrimination \Re*crim`i*na"tion\ (-n?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]crimination, LL. recriminatio.] The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.

Accusations and recriminations passed backward and forward between the contending parties.
--Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recrimination

1610s, from French récrimination, from Medieval Latin recriminationem (nominative recriminatio), noun of action from past participle stem of recriminari (see recriminate).

Wiktionary
recrimination

n. 1 The act of recriminate. 2 A counter or mutual accusation.

WordNet
recrimination

n. mutual accusations

Wikipedia
Recrimination

In law, recrimination is a defense in an action for divorce in which the accused party makes a similar accusation against the plaintiff. In plain English, it is a lawyer way of saying " You too."

Recrimination was generally considered by family law experts to be one of the most dysfunctional and illogical aspects of the old fault-based divorce system in common law countries. For example, in the context of a marriage where the marital relationship has collapsed to the point that both spouses are openly committing adultery, the assertion by either spouse of this defense would prevent a divorce even though the family unit is clearly no longer capable of functioning.

As a result, the defense was formally abolished by statute in many jurisdictions when they converted to a no-fault divorce regime.

New York law is one of very few jurisdictions that retain this defense.

The corollary principle of comparative rectitude ameliorated the effects of the recrimination doctrine by holding that if the offenses were of entirely different orders of seriousness, the spouse guilty of the lesser fault was still entitled to relief.

Usage examples of "recrimination".

However, if we must indulge in recriminations, allow me to say that you are hardly blameless yourself Henry smiled slightly.

Even that old cynic, Pastour, realized that it was not the time for recriminations or political infighting.

By these preconcerted recriminations, they escaped all suspicion of collusion.

Even Simpson and his coterie, for once, refrained from their usual recriminations and protests.

Now that Aunt Teresa has passed away, an event which occurred on almost the same day as Aunt Agata the Canoness died, only Fiammetta remains to offer recriminations.

Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober, except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination.

This brought out all of the differences among them, and the conference collapsed in squabbling and recriminations.

The Carolina attack, which was to have co-operated with that of the Heidelbergers, was never delivered, through difficulties of the ground, and considerable recriminations ensued among the Boers in consequence.

It had been a long day: there had been nothing but dramas and recriminations.

There were other shops where extravagantly-incurred bills had furnished material for those frequently recurring scenes of recrimination, and the Colonial outfitters, where, as he had phrased it in whimsical mockery, he had bought grave-clothes for his burying-alive.

It was an awe-filled quietness in which she watched her mind throw off restraint and drag up from its deep chambers repressed recriminations of the last three and a half years.

The two troopers gave up and stood panting in the tracks, their shouts of recrimination and anger dwindled and then were lost.

Everything the girls could possibly want was provided, a beautiful suite on the third floor schoolroom, playroom, bedroom with four-poster beds under flowered canopies, paired cocker spaniel puppies, Chestnut and Cinnamon, matched ponies to ride on the grounds and in the hilly woods just beyond the stone walls, a perennially changing cast of servants, hastily paid off to avoid recriminations.

It was not, he concluded, an affair of connubial recriminations, which might typically have disrupted a typical taciturnity.

He listened, tried to remonstrate quietly with her and point out her lack of logic and the injustice and baselessness of her recriminations.