Meaning & use
Bloodguiltiness
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Guilt incurred through shedding blood or committing murder.
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The prophet warned the king that his bloodguiltiness would not go unpunished.
The ancient text describes rituals meant to cleanse a city of bloodguiltiness after a killing.
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This archaic word appears most famously in the King James Bible, in Psalm 51:14: "Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God."
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