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  • And they have advanced so far along the path of guardianship89 that in many cases they have framed a law to the effect that “not the associate even of one who is blood-guilty shall be accounted pure.”

    Hiero 2007

  • _John Ferguson_ urges confidently the will of God that _James_, whom he believes blood-guilty, should not avoid arrest, and refuses to hide him.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 Various

  • "The leaders were absolute blood-guilty traitors to Britain, but in some ways their sentiments were worthy of respect," said the writer.

    Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics

  • What if we stand before the Throne, blood-guilty every one? ...

    Ballads of a Bohemian 1916

  • Only Dickie was too numb to recognise the form her confession of love had taken; love, as always, was clamouring to be clearly seen -- naked, if need be, blood-guilty, if need be -- but _seen_ ... and then swept up, sin and all, by another love big enough to accept this truth, also, as essentially part of her.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • To be told that in this struggle between the blood-guilty Hun, and the civilized nations of the earth, that we must keep even our minds impartial seemed an impossible command.

    Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Lester Pearson 1908

  • Be it held in everlasting memory, that Pedro d'Ortez, the same who has been by me beforementioned as of a profane, carnal and blood-guilty life, living not with the fear of God before his eyes, but filled with evil at the instigation of the devil: -- The said Pedro having at this period two sons, desired that the elder should, according to secular law, inherit his title and lands.

    The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Harris Dickson 1907

  • It is possibly showing gratitude for small mercies, because our friend has saved his reason, but is blood-guilty in the matter of common sense.

    Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

  • We should have heard the man who against petty politicians and occasional pugilists, out-thundered Carlyle, turn his roaring guns against the blood-guilty heads that bade wholesale rape and gaunt hunger stalk rampant in a gory world.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • We have no criminal so ruthless nor so blood-guilty as he.

    God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

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  • (adjective) - Guilty of bloodshed, or responsible for bloodshed or murders.

    --Robert Hunter's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1895

    January 14, 2018