blood guilt
noun
guilt of murder or shedding blood
blood-guilty
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a word derived from
blood guilt.
Example Sentences
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You’re safe here until they prove you blood-guilty.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Norman Duncan
Well," he added, after he had dosed them round, and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity school-children than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates, "well, that's done for to-day.
From Treasure Island by Milo Winter
In the Cardinal of Aragon, Webster paints a profligate Churchman, no less voluptuous, blood-guilty, and the rest of it, than his brother the Duke of Calabria.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Then Amis replied— "This be far from me, that my comrade be blood-guilty for my health."
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
There are enthroned monsters like Nero and Commodus; "Christian" emperors, like Constantine, ambitious, crafty, and blood-guilty; and noble "heathen" emperors like Trajan and Aurelius.
From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam
