blood guilt

British  

noun

1. guilt of murder or shedding blood

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Other Word Forms

• blood-guiltiness noun
• blood-guilty adjective

Example Sentences

It’s all here: sex, blood, guilt and moonlight, in a sincere rendition that feels fresher for having predated all of Stoker’s ubiquitous vampire tropes.

From Seattle Times

"We now believe in blood guilt. We punish people for the sins of their relatives. We don't allow individuals to have private thoughts. We hurt anyone who disagrees with orthodoxy. We demand that the innocent plead guilty to things we know they didn't do, and then read their confessions in public to prove they've been reeducated and then we brag about doing all of this."

From Salon

The dimly felt sense of guilt under which man has lived since archaic times, and which in many religions has been condensed into the assumption of a primal guilt, a hereditary sin, is probably the expression of a blood guilt, the burden of which primitive man assumed.

From Project Gutenberg

The text, of course, remains stuffed with them: redemption, holy blood, guilt, sin and suffering.

From The Guardian

But Aldebaran is a child of fate�the "blood guilt" of her ancestors keeps "working itself out," and she "can't help being passionate about anything to do with colored people."

From Time Magazine Archive