a. [f. BLAME + -FUL.]

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  1.  Imputing or conveying blame or censure; blaming, fault-finding.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Melibeus, ¶ 161. He þat is Irous and wroþ, as seith Senek, ne may nat speke but blameful thynges.

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1860.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. xii. § 4. I never saw him look an unkind or blameful look; I never knew him let pass … a blameful word spoken by another.

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  2.  Fully meriting blame; blameworthy; guilty.

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c. 1430.  Wyclif, Esther xvi. 6 (MSS. I. & S.). Malicious men gessynge othere men bi her owen kynde blameful.

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c. 1430.  Life St. Katherine (Gibbs MS.), 106. For þe blamefull chaungeablenesse of þe queene.

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1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 119. Is not the causer of the timelesse deaths … As blamefull as the Executioner.

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1738.  Glover, Leonidas, X. 95. To die, uncalled, is blameful.

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1838.  New Month. Mag., LIV. 374. ‘Now Venus screen us!’ sobb’d the blameful dame.

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  Hence Blamefully adv., Blamefulness.

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 112. Ne man schuld blamfuly bi idulnes … bring him silf to swilk nede.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1738, I. 130. Those who … blamefully permitted the old leven to remain.

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