Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The guilt or crime of shedding blood.
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Examples
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Come, let me veil my head in darkness; for I am ashamed of the evil I have done, and, since for these I have incurred fresh blood-guiltiness, I would fain not harm the innocent.
Heracles 2008
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Come, let me veil my head in darkness; for I am ashamed of the evil I have done, and, since for these I have incurred fresh blood-guiltiness, I would fain not harm the innocent.
Heracles 2008
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“Thank God, that kept thine hand from blood-guiltiness, rash young man!” answered the curate.
Kenilworth 2004
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But the great point of all is to have no blood-guiltiness, no outbreak of fanatic natives against benefactors coming in the garb of peace.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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The son who has disobeyed me is no longer mine; nor will I concern myself more for his fate than for that of the most worthless among the millions that ever shaped the cross on their shoulder, rushed into excess and blood-guiltiness, and called it an accomplishment of the will of
Ivanhoe 2004
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Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, [84] O God, the God of my salvation: my tongue shall exult in Thy righteousness.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Paul exculpates himself from the charge of blood-guiltiness, in that he had not failed to declare the whole counsel of God to them.
The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991
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It describes the murder of Agamemnon, the revenge of Orestes and his purification from blood-guiltiness.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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And even as he stood before the judgment-seat, the eyes of Ixion rested with a strange yearning on her undying beauty, and he scarce heard the words which cleansed him from blood-guiltiness.
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Never have the blood-guiltiness on your head of teaching evil to others, or leading their minds to dwell on it.
Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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