blood-guiltiness
- a word derived from blood guilt.
Example Sentences
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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 Rudd, John
The feeling of blood-guiltiness became more and more intense.
From A Retrospect by Taylor, James Hudson
But in the blood-guiltiness I will have no share.
From King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth by Stead, William T.
But he warned any man with blood-guiltiness upon his soul not to anger the gods by continuing in the games.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
He remembered the inexorableness of the past; he remembered that blood-guiltiness, which sheep never feel, is worse to men than death.
From Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use by Smith, George Adam, Sir
