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n. - The state of being culpable for injury and murder.

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Usage examples (9)
  • “Set me free from these things because of the depth of your forgiveness” is what he meant by “Save me from bloodguilt.”
  • Even if I'm on the record as saying "I want you or somebody to kill him," the larger circumstances may ensure that outcome for me anyway, WITHOUT criminal bloodguilt...
  • Before the planes, he used to play it on Wednesdays with six men at his apartment: "the one anticipation," DeLillo writes, "that was not marked by the bloodguilt...
  • I immediately thought of \Shoftim\ when I read this, of one particular passage: “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring...
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