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Blame   /bleɪm/   Listen
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



... foolish letters. He promised to destroy them, but—men are so foolish, you know, sometimes—I was never quite sure that he had kept his word, and I meant to take this opportunity of looking for myself that he had not left them about. You do not blame me, Mr. Sydney? ...
— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... it is not worth while to take notice. But the general impression left upon my mind by a few days' sojourn in the town was, that it had all the charms about it which we expect to find in fashionable watering-places, and that he who could not make himself happy there for a season, must lay the blame, not upon the scene of other people's enjoyments, but on his own temper or prejudices. Neither did I relish it the less from finding that it was very little frequented by my countrymen. There had been but one English family there before ...
— Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II • G. R. Gleig
... you mean, Joanna?" returned the earl, doubting her words and looks; "you surely cannot blame our daughter ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... does the Slavonic version of Josephus contain the passage about James, and while Origen refers to that passage, he had a different version of it from that which appears in our manuscripts. It seems that he has incorporated the gloss of a Christian believer. And again, while our text imputes the blame of the stoning of James to the Sadducees, and gives credit to the Pharisees for endeavoring to prevent it, Hegesippus, the Christian writer of the second century, uses the alleged account of the incident by Josephus to gird at the Pharisees. The probability is then that different ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich
... city was merely a region spreading around the Rue Saint-Denis. Their narrow natures could see no field except the shop. They were clever enough in nagging their clerks and their young women and in proving them to blame. Their happiness lay in seeing all hands busy at the counters, exhibiting the merchandise, and folding it up again. When they heard the six or eight voices of the young men and women glibly gabbling the ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac


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