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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The leaders of this huge party proclaimed on July 25th that Austria was the blood-guilty power and maintained this attitude in spite of bloodshed till 11 p.m. on July 28th.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith
Nay, then, what a world is this, if all that care for me be blood-guilty of my father’s death?
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
John Ferguson urges confidently the will of God that James, whom he believes blood-guilty, should not avoid arrest, and refuses to hide him.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 by Various
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
Nay, then, what a world is this, if all that care for me be blood-guilty of my father’s death!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
