English

Alternative forms

• blood-guiltiness

Noun

bloodguiltiness ‎(uncountable)

1. Guilt of having shed blood or killed someone.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:

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