blamen.

Brit.

/bleɪm/, U.S.

/bleɪm/

Forms: Also Middle English blam.

Etymology: < Old French blâme, blasmer (= Provençal blasme , Old Spanish blasmo , Italian biasimo ), on Romanic type *blasimo , < *blasimare < Latin blasphēmāre : see blame v. Compare Latin blasphēmus, Greek βλάσϕημος adjective, ‘blasphemous, reviling.’

a. The action of censuring; expression of disapprobation; imputation of demerit on account of a fault or blemish; reproof; censure; reprehension.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun]

teleeOE

tolec1000

wite?c1225

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blaminga1382

blame1393

lack1487

dashing1591

taxation1605

inculpation1822

scapegoating1943

scapegoatism1961

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 347 Thus more and more arose the blame Ayein Egiste on every side.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 43 With mony blame, ful bygge a boffet, peraunter.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Cii Moch worthy blame is that christen man.

1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 67 The contrary to Fame and Applause, to wit, Blame and Derision.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 282 Even Henry himself he [Latimer] did not spare where he saw occasion for blame.

†b. The condition of being blamed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] > condition of being blamed

blamec1230

c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Wið unworð ne wið uuel blame.

c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 278 And putte yowe in sclaundre nowe and blame.

†2. A charge, an accusation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > instance of

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus ii. 3 Not bacbiteris, or seyinge fals blame on othere men.

c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 542 Immortal god þat sauedest susanne ffro false blame.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 19335 Wol ȝe dryue on vs þe blame..Þat we haue slayn him wiþ wronge.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin viii. 121 She was ledde to be brente for a blame that was put vpon hir.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2^v The blames laid against it [Poesie], are either false, or feeble.

3. Blameworthiness, culpability; fault. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [noun]

sakeOE

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delinquence1613

nocence1614

piacle1619

deliquity1682

society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun]

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sakeOE

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] > blameworthiness

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blameableness1654

culpability1675

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 432 Þy louerd ssal abbe an name..vayr wyþout blame.

c1314 Guy Warw. 1737 Gij of Warwike..a kniȝt he was wiþ-outen blame.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum i. xix He enticeth or enflameth vnto crymes and blames.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. ix. 33 Oftner thought she it more blame not to haue erred so.

1611 Bible (King James) Eph. i. 4 That we should be holy and without blame before him.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 37 My high repented blames Deere Soueraigne pardon to me.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 648 in Idylls of King Is thy white blamelessness accounted blame?

4. Responsibility for anything wrong, culpability; esp. in to lay the blame on, to bear the blame.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase]

to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300

to lay the blame on1393

to give the wrong to?1473

to lay in (his) neckc1515

to cast (any one) in the teeth1526

to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526

to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526

to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530

call to or in coram1542

to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551

to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568

to cast up1604

to nail to the barn door1894

society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > responsibility for wrong

guilt11..

unmethelOE

fault1377

blame1393

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 76 The blame upon the duke they laide.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 62^v I am not in the blame, quoth he, but Dionisius.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 715 The faulte & blame is in thee.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 87 He..casts the blame upon the Prince of Aurange.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 274 He took all the blame on himself.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. 53 They laid the blame of the quarrel on the archbishop's violence.

†5. ? Injury, hurt. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun]

harmOE

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1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms l. 15 Then call to me When ought would worke thee blame.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5^v Glauncing downe his shield, from blame him fairely blest.

Draft additions September 2004

blame game n. the ready or vociferous apportioning of blame (often with the implication that a more constructive attitude should be taken); a tendency to engage in this; usually with the.

ΚΠ

1958 K. Tynan in Observer 28 Sept. 19/2 The family goes round and round in that worst of domestic rituals, the Blame Game. I blame my agony on you; you blame yours on her; she blames hers on me.

1993 Utne Reader Jan. 2/2 Many in the women's movement and the emerging men's movement have dropped the blame game in favor of exploring what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a man.

2003 newWitch Spring 49/1 Things go right for them and when they don't, they pick themselves up... They don't play the blame game.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

blamev.

Brit.

/bleɪm/, U.S.

/bleɪm/

Forms: Also Middle English blam, Middle English–1500s blamen, (Middle English Caxton blasmen).

Etymology: < Old French blâmer, blasmer (= Provençal blasmar , Old Spanish blasmar , Italian biasimare ( < blasimare ) to blame) < late Latin blasphēmāre to revile, reproach, < Greek βλασϕημεῖν to blaspheme v.; introduced into Latin in the language of the New Test. The phonetic changes in blasphemāre, blasimāre, blasmar, blasmer, blâmer, blāme, and the modified sense, are due to the continuous popular use of the word; the original form and sense are reproduced in the learned or semi-popular blaspheme.

1. transitive. To find fault with; to censure (an action, a person for his action): the opposite of to praise.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [verb (transitive)]

accuseOE

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awreakc1275

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attask1608

refounda1653

thank1667

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to take to task1682

twitter1749

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 73 Drede letteð þe mannes shrifte..swiche men blameð þe prophete on þe sealm boc.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 28 Ne he ne cunne ou nouþer blamen [c1230 Corpus lastin, a1250 Titus laste] ne preisen.

c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 8 Thow blamest crist, and seist ful bitterly, He mysdeparteth richesse temporal.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton B iij Thow oughtest not to blame ne dyspreyse other.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxxvi. 221 Of this aduenture the prouost was greatly blamed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 27 Goe girle, I cannot blame thee now to weepe.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii. i, in Wks. (1874) IV. 43 Who can blame him to absent himselfe from home?

1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 123 I had not blamed him had he acknowledged his authors.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 86 All they can blame him for.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 77 To blame the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 78 We blame our fathers for letting us be spoiled.

†2. To address with rebuke; to reprove, chide, scold. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]

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to call to account1434

to put downc1440

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correptc1449

reformc1450

reprise?c1450

to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450

control1451

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berisp1481

to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522

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lesson1555

to take down1562

to haul (a person) over the coals1565

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to gather up1577

task1580

redarguate?1590

expostulate1592

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sauce1601

snip1601

sneap1611

to take in tax1635

to sharp up1647

round1653

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reprimand1681

to take to task1682

document1690

chapter1693

repulse1746

twink1747

to speak to ——1753

haul1795

to pull up1799

carpet1840

rig1841

to talk to1860

to take (a person) to the woodshed1882

rawhide1895

to tell off1897

to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900

to get on ——1904

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

strafe1915

tick1915

woodshed1935

to slap (a person) down1938

sort1941

bind1942

bottle1946

mat1948

ream1950

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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 163 Bi fore hym he lette brynge ys men, & bi gan hem faste blame.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke viii. 24 And he risynge blamyde the wynd, and the tempest of watir.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxii. 93 She shalle not make her self to be blamed, ne to be bete.

1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 116/1 The good kinge Dauyd..blamed his folishe wife.

1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade v No reproche can be to much to blame her.

†3. To bring into disrepute or discredit. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > bring discredit on or bring into disrepute

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alosea1325

low1340

ensclaundre1389

foulc1390

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blame1596

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even1625

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lese1678

rogue1678

reflect1769

disconsider1849

dispraise1879

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb3 This ill state..To which she for his sake had weetingly Now brought her selfe, and blam'd her noble blood.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. vi. 3 Giuing no offence in any thing, that the ministery be not blamed .

†4. To charge; to accuse (of, with a fault, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] > accuse of or charge with

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to lay to one's charge1535

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to charge (a person) with1559

reproach1570

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impute1596

censure1634

arraign1672

saddle1794

inculpate1799

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13027 He coom to blame þe kyng of synne.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. vi. 69 A fayre Maiden was blamed with wrong, and sclaundred, that sche hadde don Fornycacyoun.

1483 Cath. Angl. 34 To Blame, accusare, culpare.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie viii. 44 So would men blame him of unfaithfulnesse.

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 61 He is blam'd of Avarice.

5. To lay the blame on, reproach; to fix the responsibility upon; to make answerable. Also, to blame (something) on (or on to) (someone).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)]

edwitec825

witec893

accuseOE

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forwrayOE

atwiteOE

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a1300 Cursor Mundi 1102 To blam þe broiþer was þam laith.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 158 Wherof full ofte netheles A king is blamed gilteles.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 15 I shold be blasmed yf they dyde you ony harme.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 52 That was not to be blam'd in the command of the seruice: it was a disaster of warre.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xl. 255 Blaming sometimes the Policy, sometimes the Religion.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶2 She has no Body to blame for it but her self.

1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 617 I call this bad management, and I blame it upon you.

1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 22 We will blame it on the deep.

1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 175 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. viii. 283 Naval historians have all blamed the failure on to the Queen.

6. The dative infinitive to blame is much used as the predicate after be. In the 16–17th centuries the to was misunderstood as too, and blame taken as adjectival = blameworthy, culpable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [verb (intransitive)] > be blameworthy

blamea1250

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 104 He is swuðe to blamen [?c1225 Cleo. to witen].

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 308 If yt be payed prestliche the payer is to blame.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 13 The King my Vnckle is too blame for this.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 173 In faith my Lord you are too wilfull blame .

a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) i. 84* Blush and confesse that you be too too blame.

1631 W. Saltonstall Mayde iv Perhaps Potentia wanted to be blame.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 58 The Girle was much too blame.

1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Oct. (1965) I. 17 I am not so much to blame as you imagine.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 90 I was to blame in having put my question badly.

7. dialect and U.S. Used as an imprecation.

a. In the imperative mood.

ΚΠ

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Blame, v. a very decent and commendable evasion of the horrible word damn. Ex. ‘Blame me’, or ‘I will be blamed, if’, &c... Nobody ever heard so mild an imprecation as ‘blame you for a rascal’, or ‘John Smith be blamed for a fool’.

a1832 R. C. Sands Writings (1834) II. 149 Goy blame it all.

1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes iii. 26 ‘Blame my buttons,’ said Blossom, ‘if I like them eyes!’

1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 8 ‘Blame it’ is equivalent to ‘confound it’.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 19 Blame ye! ye be always at something.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vii. 74 Blame it, I ain't going to stir him much.

1886 Harper's Mag. June 52/2 Blame me if them ain't the darnedest beans I ever seen!

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix. 210 Blame that boy! He never told. I'd ha' listened to that.

1905 G. H. Gibson in A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 70 But blame my cats if I know what else They'll find for Bill to do.

b. In passive, in (I'm) blamed if (etc.).

ΚΠ

a1825 [see sense 7a].

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. iii. 31 I'll be blamed if you've the least bit of Yankee in you.

1867 R. Young Rabin Hill 11 I'm bleamed if we beant in a mess.

1876 ‘M. Adeler’ Elbow-room xv Blamed if I haven't forgotten that word.

1883 S. K. Hocking Dick's Fairy ii. 11 Blamed if you're not a pretty little gal, anyhow.

1905 H. R. Martin Tillie 322 I'm blamed if I dare adwise you.

c. as adv. = blamed adv..

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad

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1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xvii. 134 ‘Blame close, stranger,’ said the old hero.

a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1871) viii. 85 It's a free country, and I shall say what I blame please.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vii. 74 He's my tick and I'll do what I blame please with him, or die!

1905 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 160 You know blame well that I don't understand any French.

d. as adj. = blamed adj..

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation

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1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vi. 65 Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame-fool way as that!

1886 J. C. Harris in Cent. Mag. Jan. 427/1 I got a dockyment here that'll fetch you a blame sight quicker'n your dockyment'll fetch me.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous vi. 129 You..go hoggin' the road on the high seas with no blame consideration fer your neighbours.

a1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xxi. 351 You're a blame Yankee, ain't you?

1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter i. 5 That's nobody's blame business but mine.

1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 263 The blame thing jarred off—spiteful as a rattler!

1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs 155 Them blame little children is all crying yet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	blame
释义	blamen. Brit. /bleɪm/, U.S. /bleɪm/ Forms: Also Middle English blam. Etymology: < Old French blâme, blasmer (= Provençal blasme , Old Spanish blasmo , Italian biasimo ), on Romanic type blasimo , < blasimare < Latin blasphēmāre : see blame v. Compare Latin blasphēmus, Greek βλάσϕημος adjective, ‘blasphemous, reviling.’ 1. a. The action of censuring; expression of disapprobation; imputation of demerit on account of a fault or blemish; reproof; censure; reprehension. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] teleeOE tolec1000 wite?c1225 lacking1377 blaminga1382 blame1393 lack1487 dashing1591 taxation1605 inculpation1822 scapegoating1943 scapegoatism1961 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 347 Thus more and more arose the blame Ayein Egiste on every side. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 43 With mony blame, ful bygge a boffet, peraunter. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Cii Moch worthy blame is that christen man. 1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 67 The contrary to Fame and Applause, to wit, Blame and Derision. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 282 Even Henry himself he [Latimer] did not spare where he saw occasion for blame. †b. The condition of being blamed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] > condition of being blamed blamec1230 c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Wið unworð ne wið uuel blame. c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 278 And putte yowe in sclaundre nowe and blame. †2. A charge, an accusation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > instance of sakec1175 challengec1315 quarrela1325 accusationa1382 cause1382 blamec1384 pointa1387 accusementa1393 chesouna1400 objectionc1410 accuse?a1439 thing1548 facing-carda1624 intentation1623 indictment1871 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus ii. 3 Not bacbiteris, or seyinge fals blame on othere men. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 542 Immortal god þat sauedest susanne ffro false blame. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 19335 Wol ȝe dryue on vs þe blame..Þat we haue slayn him wiþ wronge. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin viii. 121 She was ledde to be brente for a blame that was put vpon hir. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2^v The blames laid against it [Poesie], are either false, or feeble. 3. Blameworthiness, culpability; fault. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [noun] sakeOE wite?c1225 blame1297 guiltc1330 fault1377 culpablenessc1380 guiltinessc1480 guiltyship1557 faultiness1571 fact1583 blameworthinessa1586 delinquishment1593 obnoxiousness1610 nocency1611 delinquence1613 nocence1614 piacle1619 deliquity1682 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] guilt971 sakeOE plightc1175 wite?c1225 blame1297 culpe1377 culpablenessc1380 fact1583 piacle1619 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] > blameworthiness wite?c1225 blame1297 culpablenessc1380 faultiness1571 blameworthinessa1586 obnoxiousness1610 blameableness1654 culpability1675 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 432 Þy louerd ssal abbe an name..vayr wyþout blame. c1314 Guy Warw. 1737 Gij of Warwike..a kniȝt he was wiþ-outen blame. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum i. xix He enticeth or enflameth vnto crymes and blames. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. ix. 33 Oftner thought she it more blame not to haue erred so. 1611 Bible (King James) Eph. i. 4 That we should be holy and without blame before him. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 37 My high repented blames Deere Soueraigne pardon to me. View more context for this quotation 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 648 in Idylls of King Is thy white blamelessness accounted blame? 4. Responsibility for anything wrong, culpability; esp. in to lay the blame on, to bear the blame. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase] to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300 to lay the blame on1393 to give the wrong to?1473 to lay in (his) neckc1515 to cast (any one) in the teeth1526 to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526 to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526 to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530 call to or in coram1542 to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551 to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568 to cast up1604 to nail to the barn door1894 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > responsibility for wrong guilt11.. unmethelOE fault1377 blame1393 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 76 The blame upon the duke they laide. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 62^v I am not in the blame, quoth he, but Dionisius. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 715 The faulte & blame is in thee. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 87 He..casts the blame upon the Prince of Aurange. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 274 He took all the blame on himself. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. 53 They laid the blame of the quarrel on the archbishop's violence. †5. ? Injury, hurt. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] harmOE tinsela1340 damagec1374 offensiona1382 pairmentc1384 wrongc1384 offencec1385 wrackc1407 lesion?a1425 ruin1467 prejudicec1485 domager1502 qualm1513 jacture1515 imblemishment1529 perishment1540 impeachment1548 blame1549 dommagie1556 execution1581 damagement1603 sufferancea1616 stroy1682 murder1809 punishment1839 1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms l. 15 Then call to me When ought would worke thee blame. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5^v Glauncing downe his shield, from blame him fairely blest. Draft additions September 2004 blame game n. the ready or vociferous apportioning of blame (often with the implication that a more constructive attitude should be taken); a tendency to engage in this; usually with the. ΚΠ 1958 K. Tynan in Observer 28 Sept. 19/2 The family goes round and round in that worst of domestic rituals, the Blame Game. I blame my agony on you; you blame yours on her; she blames hers on me. 1993 Utne Reader Jan. 2/2 Many in the women's movement and the emerging men's movement have dropped the blame game in favor of exploring what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a man. 2003 newWitch Spring 49/1 Things go right for them and when they don't, they pick themselves up... They don't play the blame game. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). blamev. Brit. /bleɪm/, U.S. /bleɪm/ Forms: Also Middle English blam, Middle English–1500s blamen, (Middle English Caxton blasmen). Etymology: < Old French blâmer, blasmer (= Provençal blasmar , Old Spanish blasmar , Italian biasimare ( < blasimare ) to blame) < late Latin blasphēmāre to revile, reproach, < Greek βλασϕημεῖν to blaspheme v.; introduced into Latin in the language of the New Test. The phonetic changes in blasphemāre, blasimāre, blasmar, blasmer, blâmer, blāme, and the modified sense, are due to the continuous popular use of the word; the original form and sense are reproduced in the learned or semi-popular blaspheme. 1. transitive. To find fault with; to censure (an action, a person for his action): the opposite of to praise. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [verb (transitive)] accuseOE witea1000 blamec1200 lastc1225 awreakc1275 friec1300 lack1340 impugn1377 aretc1386 default1489 remord1522 culpate1548 tax1548 finger-point1563 witen1589 attask1608 refounda1653 thank1667 bumble1675 to take to task1682 twitter1749 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 73 Drede letteð þe mannes shrifte..swiche men blameð þe prophete on þe sealm boc. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 28 Ne he ne cunne ou nouþer blamen [c1230 Corpus lastin, a1250 Titus laste] ne preisen. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 8 Thow blamest crist, and seist ful bitterly, He mysdeparteth richesse temporal. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton B iij Thow oughtest not to blame ne dyspreyse other. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxxvi. 221 Of this aduenture the prouost was greatly blamed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 27 Goe girle, I cannot blame thee now to weepe. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii. i, in Wks. (1874) IV. 43 Who can blame him to absent himselfe from home? 1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 123 I had not blamed him had he acknowledged his authors. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 86 All they can blame him for. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 77 To blame the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 78 We blame our fathers for letting us be spoiled. †2. To address with rebuke; to reprove, chide, scold. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] threac897 threapc897 begripea1000 threata1000 castea1200 chaste?c1225 takec1275 blame1297 chastya1300 sniba1300 withnima1315 undernima1325 rebukec1330 snuba1340 withtakea1340 reprovec1350 chastisea1375 arate1377 challenge1377 undertake1377 reprehenda1382 repreync1390 runta1398 snapea1400 underfoc1400 to call to account1434 to put downc1440 snebc1440 uptakec1440 correptc1449 reformc1450 reprise?c1450 to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450 control1451 redarguec1475 berisp1481 to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522 checkc1530 admonish1541 nip1548 twig?1550 impreve1552 lesson1555 to take down1562 to haul (a person) over the coals1565 increpate1570 touch1570 school1573 to gather up1577 task1580 redarguate?1590 expostulate1592 tutor1599 sauce1601 snip1601 sneap1611 to take in tax1635 to sharp up1647 round1653 threapen1671 reprimand1681 to take to task1682 document1690 chapter1693 repulse1746 twink1747 to speak to ——1753 haul1795 to pull up1799 carpet1840 rig1841 to talk to1860 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 rawhide1895 to tell off1897 to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900 to get on ——1904 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 strafe1915 tick1915 woodshed1935 to slap (a person) down1938 sort1941 bind1942 bottle1946 mat1948 ream1950 zap1961 elder1967 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 163 Bi fore hym he lette brynge ys men, & bi gan hem faste blame. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke viii. 24 And he risynge blamyde the wynd, and the tempest of watir. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxii. 93 She shalle not make her self to be blamed, ne to be bete. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 116/1 The good kinge Dauyd..blamed his folishe wife. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade v No reproche can be to much to blame her. †3. To bring into disrepute or discredit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > bring discredit on or bring into disrepute unworthyc1230 alosea1325 low1340 ensclaundre1389 foulc1390 disparagea1400 deface1529 depress1550 discredit?1550 ignoblec1590 redound1591 reproach1593 blame1596 nullify1603 scandal1606 sinka1616 even1625 explode1629 disrepute1649 disrepute1651 lese1678 rogue1678 reflect1769 disconsider1849 dispraise1879 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb3 This ill state..To which she for his sake had weetingly Now brought her selfe, and blam'd her noble blood. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. vi. 3 Giuing no offence in any thing, that the ministery be not blamed . View more context for this quotation †4. To charge; to accuse (of, with a fault, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] > accuse of or charge with tee871 upbraidc1000 acoupc1300 retc1300 becalla1325 charge138. impeachc1380 putc1380 blamea1400 appeach1430 gredea1450 articlea1460 filea1500 slander1504 to lay to one's charge1535 aggravate1541 to charge (a person) with1559 reproach1570 attaint1586 impute1596 censure1634 arraign1672 saddle1794 inculpate1799 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13027 He coom to blame þe kyng of synne. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. vi. 69 A fayre Maiden was blamed with wrong, and sclaundred, that sche hadde don Fornycacyoun. 1483 Cath. Angl. 34 To Blame, accusare, culpare. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie viii. 44 So would men blame him of unfaithfulnesse. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 61 He is blam'd of Avarice. 5. To lay the blame on, reproach; to fix the responsibility upon; to make answerable. Also, to blame (something) on (or on to) (someone). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] edwitec825 witec893 accuseOE bespeaka1000 forwrayOE atwiteOE blamea1300 impugn1377 publishc1384 defamea1387 appeach1430 becryc1440 surmisea1485 arguea1522 infame1531 insimulate1532 note1542 tax1548 resperse1551 finger-point1563 chesoun1568 touch1570 disclaim1590 impeach1590 intent1613 question1620 accriminate1641 charge1785 cheek1877 a1300 Cursor Mundi 1102 To blam þe broiþer was þam laith. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 158 Wherof full ofte netheles A king is blamed gilteles. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 15 I shold be blasmed yf they dyde you ony harme. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 52 That was not to be blam'd in the command of the seruice: it was a disaster of warre. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xl. 255 Blaming sometimes the Policy, sometimes the Religion. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶2 She has no Body to blame for it but her self. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 617 I call this bad management, and I blame it upon you. 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 22 We will blame it on the deep. 1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 175 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. viii. 283 Naval historians have all blamed the failure on to the Queen. 6. The dative infinitive to blame is much used as the predicate after be. In the 16–17th centuries the to was misunderstood as too, and blame taken as adjectival = blameworthy, culpable. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [verb (intransitive)] > be blameworthy blamea1250 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 104 He is swuðe to blamen [?c1225 Cleo. to witen]. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 308 If yt be payed prestliche the payer is to blame. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 13 The King my Vnckle is too blame for this. View more context for this quotation 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 173 In faith my Lord you are too wilfull blame . View more context for this quotation a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) i. 84* Blush and confesse that you be too too blame. 1631 W. Saltonstall Mayde iv Perhaps Potentia wanted to be blame. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 58 The Girle was much too blame. 1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Oct. (1965) I. 17 I am not so much to blame as you imagine. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 90 I was to blame in having put my question badly. 7. dialect and U.S. Used as an imprecation. a. In the imperative mood. ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Blame, v. a very decent and commendable evasion of the horrible word damn. Ex. ‘Blame me’, or ‘I will be blamed, if’, &c... Nobody ever heard so mild an imprecation as ‘blame you for a rascal’, or ‘John Smith be blamed for a fool’. a1832 R. C. Sands Writings (1834) II. 149 Goy blame it all. 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes iii. 26 ‘Blame my buttons,’ said Blossom, ‘if I like them eyes!’ 1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 8 ‘Blame it’ is equivalent to ‘confound it’. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 19 Blame ye! ye be always at something. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vii. 74 Blame it, I ain't going to stir him much. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 52/2 Blame me if them ain't the darnedest beans I ever seen! 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix. 210 Blame that boy! He never told. I'd ha' listened to that. 1905 G. H. Gibson in A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 70 But blame my cats if I know what else They'll find for Bill to do. b. In passive, in (I'm) blamed if (etc.). ΚΠ a1825 [see sense 7a]. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. iii. 31 I'll be blamed if you've the least bit of Yankee in you. 1867 R. Young Rabin Hill 11 I'm bleamed if we beant in a mess. 1876 ‘M. Adeler’ Elbow-room xv Blamed if I haven't forgotten that word. 1883 S. K. Hocking Dick's Fairy ii. 11 Blamed if you're not a pretty little gal, anyhow. 1905 H. R. Martin Tillie 322 I'm blamed if I dare adwise you. c. as adv. = blamed adv.. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad sorea1300 grievously1340 terrible1490 beastly?1518 shrewdlyc1533 arrantly?1548 murrainly?1548 abominablea1550 pestilence1567 pestilently1567 cursedly1570 pestiferously1570 murrain1575 plaguey1584 plaguilya1586 grievous1598 scandalously1602 horridly1603 terribly1604 monstrously1611 hellish1614 dreadfullya1616 horrid1615 pestilenta1616 infernally1638 preposterously1661 woeful1684 confoundedly1694 confounded1709 glaringly1709 cursed1719 flagrantly1756 weary1790 disgustingly1804 filthy1827 blamed1833 peskily1833 pesky1833 blame1843 blasted1854 wickedly1858 blatantly1878 shamelessly1885 disgracefully1893 ruddy1913 bastarda1935 pissing1951 sodding1954 pissingly1971 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xvii. 134 ‘Blame close, stranger,’ said the old hero. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1871) viii. 85 It's a free country, and I shall say what I blame please. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vii. 74 He's my tick and I'll do what I blame please with him, or die! 1905 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 160 You know blame well that I don't understand any French. d. as adj. = blamed adj.. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vi. 65 Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame-fool way as that! 1886 J. C. Harris in Cent. Mag. Jan. 427/1 I got a dockyment here that'll fetch you a blame sight quicker'n your dockyment'll fetch me. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous vi. 129 You..go hoggin' the road on the high seas with no blame consideration fer your neighbours. a1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xxi. 351 You're a blame Yankee, ain't you? 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter i. 5 That's nobody's blame business but mine. 1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 263 The blame thing jarred off—spiteful as a rattler! 1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs 155 Them blame little children is all crying yet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1230v.c1200
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