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bloodguilty
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English
Etymology
Adjective
bloodguilty (comparative more bloodguilty, superlative most bloodguilty)
- Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
- a bloodguilty life
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References
- “bloodguilty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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