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Though John Brown’s body lay beneath the sod, His soul released the winds and loosed the flood: The Nation wrought his will as hest of God, And her bloodguiltiness atoned with blood.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various

All concerned in Ralegh's trial and conviction have a heavy burden of bloodguiltiness to bear.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

The latter are thus free from the great bloodguiltiness which attaches to most of those, who in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made voyages of discovery in southern regions.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882

I would save you and the child from bloodguiltiness and sin.

From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

That night will I conjure up as one calls up spirits from the grave, that their witness may animate anew long forgotten bloodguiltiness!

From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann