Responsible for or guilty of causing someone's death or shedding blood; bearing moral liability for violence.
Compound adjective of 'blood' (Old English blōd) + 'guilty' (from Old English gylt); formally denotes the state of having incurred blood liability.
The phrase 'bloodguilty' implies that guilt isn't just a feeling—it's a state of being, almost like a contagion transmitted through violence, which is why so many cultures developed purification rituals to try to remove bloodguilt from people and places.
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