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verb

Blame v. t. (past & past part. blamed; pres. part. blaming)

1.

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. "We have none to blame but ourselves."

2.

To bring reproach upon; to blemish. (Obs.) " She... blamed her noble blood."

To blame, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident. "You were to blame, I must be plain with you."

noun

Blame n.

1.

An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure. "Let me bear the blame forever."

2.

That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin. "Holy and without blame before him in love."

3.

Hurt; injury. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Censure; reprehension; condemnation; reproach; fault; sin; crime; wrongdoing.

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"Blame" Quotes from Famous Books

... sent two ailing slum children to be taken care of at her house, and it proved to be scarlet fever, and, of course, her stepmother took it the first thing—she's a hateful person and takes everything she can get—and then the cook followed suit. Now they blame Laura and she has to find trained nurses and settle everything before ...

— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... noble-hearted Cornstalk were never punished, but they certainly were not admired. The white men who had met him in war and in peace mourned him as much as the red men did. And from that day the Shawnee nation "became the most deadly foe to the inhabitants of the frontiers." Who may blame them? ...

— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... forgotten to tell you what M. de Bouillon said to me in private as we were going from the conference. "I am sure," said he, "that you will not blame me for not exposing a wife whom I dearly love and eight children whom she loves more than herself to the hazards which you run, and which I could run with you were I ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... of that case, and through it the exposure of all my previous criminal record, which before that time I had been able to conceal, the girl went back on me, and would have nothing more to do with me. Now she is married to another man, and while I don't blame her any, I do blame the man that exposed me, and if any of you people that are gathered here can help me in getting square with him I'll be eternally grateful. My name ...

— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter

... pedigree. Anyway, he was dressed white. One of three got 'em—either my own men, or contractors out west, or the Indians. If I thought it was my men there'd be a new line of graves to-morrow—and I don't somehow think the contractors would risk it. It seemed safer to blame the Indians then. Now? Oh, I guess I must have been crazy. Them horses weren't stolen. They've taken a holiday to get a drink, or gone for the ...

— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

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