blood guilt
noun
guilt of murder or shedding blood
blood-guiltiness
-
a word derived from
blood guilt.
Example Sentences
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The feeling of blood-guiltiness became more and more intense.
From A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor
A notable instance occurred, in 1095, when these yama-hoshi of Hiyoshi preferred a charge of blood-guiltiness against Minamoto Yoshitsuna, governor of Mino.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Yet the idea of some supernatural visitation at Salem was but very slowly relinquished, being still persisted in even by those penitent actors in the scene who confessed and lamented their own delusion and blood-guiltiness.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
None of his sufferings could have equalled in intensity of agony this appalling sense of blood-guiltiness!
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Never have the blood-guiltiness on your head of teaching evil to others, or leading their minds to dwell on it.
From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
