bloodguiltiness

• blood-guiltiness

From bloodguilty +‎ -ness.

bloodguiltiness (uncountable)

1. Guilt of having shed blood or killed someone.

• 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Firste Daie of Lente Commonly Called Ashe-wednisdaye”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xxxii, verso:

  Deliuer me from bloud giltineſſe (O God) thou that art the god of my health: and my toungue ſhall ſyng of thy righteouſneſſe.

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 206:

  High God, in lieu of innocence, / Imprinted had that token of his wrath, / To ſhew how ſore bloudguiltineſſe he hat'th; [...]

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:14:

  Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

• 1881, C. F. Hull, Shadows of good things to come; or, the gospel in Ruth, page 42:

  Take heed, then, lest, while you plume yourselves on your superior wisdom and discrimination, the Great Captain does not arraign you before his court-martial on the charge of blood-guiltiness.