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Webster 1828 Edition


Bloodguiltiness

BLOOD'GUILTINESS

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Noun.
[blood and guilt.] The guilt or crime of shedding blood. Ps.51.

Definition 2024


bloodguiltiness

bloodguiltiness

English

Alternative forms

  • blood-guiltiness

Noun

bloodguiltiness (uncountable)

  1. Guilt of having shed blood or killed someone.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
      high God, in lieu of innocence, / Imprinted had that token of his wrath, / To shew how sore bloudguiltinesse he hat'th [...].