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- noun
Guilt of having shedblood or killed someone.
Etymologies
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Examples
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No, no; I set thee free from this bloodguiltiness.
Hippolytus 2008
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No, no; I set thee free from this bloodguiltiness.
Hippolytus 2008
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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psalms 51. 1999
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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Apology Sermon 1988
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But Sulla was not satisfied, nor was he content to do the same as others: a certain longing came over him to far excel all in the variety of his slaughters, as if there were some virtue in being second to none even in bloodguiltiness, and so he exposed to view a new device, a whitened tablet, on which he inscribed the names.
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It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with bloodguiltiness.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with bloodguiltiness.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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How then can you possibly throw off bloodguiltiness, with the light which you now enjoy?
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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