单词 | blood guilt |
释义 | blood guiltn. Guilt for the shedding of blood; responsibility for wrongful killing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [noun] > of bloodshed bloodOE blood-guiltiness1535 blood guilt1550 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > guilt of bloodshed bloodOE blood-guiltiness1535 blood guilt1550 1550 W. Hunnis Certayne Psalmes li Delyuer me from bloude gylte. 1655 V. Gookin Author & Case transplanting Irish Vindicated 7 Particular bloud-guilt of private persons, is expressly excepted from pardon by that act of Settlement. 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xxvi. 349 Before the efficacy of this blood guilt vanishes, and shrinks away. 1792 M. A. Meilan tr. F. de S. de La Mothe-Fénelon Adventures Telemachus (ed. 2) I. x. 371 Of blood-guilt, my hands and heart are free. 1849 Times 3 Aug. 4/3 Alas! blood-guilt and treachery are not confined to the more barbarous and more remote points of our wide dominions. 1882 F. Harrison Crisis in Egypt 9 It would be blood-guilt in this country to enforce these guarantees at the cost of war. 1963 Life 8 Feb. 63/2 Their works dealt with heroic matters: fate, blood guilt, the duel between reason and blind passion. 2010 C. T. Halberstam Law & Truth in Biblical & Rabbinic Lit. 100 For the rabbis, the blood-guilt incurred by wrongful death..ought to be acknowledged, assigned, and eventually expiated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1550 |
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