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blameful, a.|ˈbleɪmfʊl|
[f. blame + -ful.]
1. Imputing or conveying blame or censure; blaming, fault-finding.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋161 He þat is Irous and wroþ, as seith Senek, ne may nat speke but blameful thynges. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. xii. §4, I never saw him look an unkind or blameful look; I never knew him let pass..a blameful word spoken by another.
2. Fully meriting blame; blameworthy; guilty.
c1430Wyclif Esther xvi. 6 (MSS. I. & S.) Malicious men gessynge othere men bi her owen kynde blameful. c1430Life St. Katherine (Gibbs MS.) 106 For þe blamefull chaungeablenesse of þe queene. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 119 Is not the causer of the timelesse deaths..As blamefull as the Executioner. 1738Glover Leonidas x. 95 To die, uncalled, is blameful. 1838New Month. Mag. LIV. 374 ‘Now Venus screen us!’ sobb'd the blameful dame.
Hence ˈblamefully adv., ˈblamefulness.
c1400Apol. Loll. 112 Ne man schuld blamfuly bi idulnes..bring him silf to swilk nede. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 130 Those who..blamefully permitted the old leven to remain. |