单词 | blood-guilty |
释义 | blood-guiltyadj. Responsible for bloodshed or killing; characterized by blood guilt. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [adjective] > of something blood-guilty1570 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [adjective] > guilty of bloodshed blood-guilty1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2302/1 Let such bloudgiltie homicides beware. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. E 2v Murthered by her owne blood-guiltie hands. 1623 F. Rous Oile of Scorpions x. 132 This mountaine of bloud will make bloud-guilty men to cry for Mountaines of earth to fall vpon them. 1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia iii. 12 Blood-guilty wretch, who labor'st to disthrone Gods Majesty it self. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 24 That proud prelate, that blood-guilty man. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem I. lvi. 221 Look at Spain..and see whether no solemn lesson has been read to the blood-guilty. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xviii.168 My only friend in that wild country was blood-guilty in the first degree. 1942 Jrnl. Politics 4 258 For this situation the gangster powers are blood guilty. 1999 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 12 Sept. (Comment) c3 If Canada shuts her doors and her heart to these people [sc. would-be immigrants], she is guilty... blood guilty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1570 |
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