bloodguiltiness

English

Alternative forms

  • blood-guiltiness

Etymology

From bloodguilty +‎ -ness.

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 [...].
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