blood guilt

noun

guilt of murder or shedding blood

Derived forms of blood guilt

blood-guilty, adjective
blood-guiltiness, noun

Words Nearby blood guilt

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How to use blood guilt in a sentence

In cities like Naples blood guilt could be atoned for at an inconceivably low rate.
Folkways | William Graham Sumner
There is a curse laid on this soil, because blood-guilt attaches to it and because it is ill-gotten.
Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series | August Strindberg
If you accept the principle at all, you must accept with it the blood-guilt of innocent men.
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre | Voltairine de Cleyre
Upon them rests the blood-guilt for this dreadful catastrophe which has befallen the world.
Right Above Race | Otto Hermann Kahn
Some of these men had known the inside of the penitentiary; some were not without blood-guilt.
Our Southern Highlanders | Horace Kephart

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