noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Guilt of wrongfully causing death or shedding blood. uncountable
2. 2
   the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder wordnet

Etymology

From blood + guilt, since the 16th century.

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