bloodguiltiness

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English

Alternative forms

blood-guiltiness

Etymology

From bloodguilty +‎ -ness.

Noun

bloodguiltiness (uncountable)

Guilt of having shed blood or killed someone.
- 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Firste Daie of Lente Commonly Called Ashe-wednisdaye”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, , London: Edowardi Whitchurche , →OCLC, folio xxxii, verso:
  Deliuer me from bloud giltineſſe (O God) thou that art the god of my health: and my toungue ſhall ſyng of thy righteouſneſſe.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 206:
  igh God, in lieu of innocence, / Imprinted had that token of his wrath, / To ſhew how ſore bloudguiltineſſe he hat'th; [...]
- 1881, C. F. Hull, Shadows of good things to come; or, the gospel in Ruth, page 42:
  Take heed, then, lest, while you plume yourselves on your superior wisdom and discrimination, the Great Captain does not arraign you before his court-martial on the charge of blood-guiltiness.

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