blood guilt
noun
guilt of murder or shedding blood
blood-guiltiness
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a word derived from
blood guilt.
Example Sentences
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Hamlet, recoiling from the rough duty of revenge, is pushed into blood-guiltiness he never dreamed of, and forced at last on the revenge he could not will.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
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
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 Sir George Adam Smith
"Madame," replied the still imperturbable parson, "the crime of blood-guiltiness cannot be imputed to you, for you did not know what you were doing."
From Romance of California Life by John Habberton
So without blood-guiltiness they get their end, yet stainless go to God.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
