Blood Money Definition

noun
Money paid to a hired killer.
Webster's New World
Money paid as compensation to the next of kin of a murdered person; wergeld.
Webster's New World
Money gotten ruthlessly at the expense of others' lives or suffering.
Webster's New World

Blood Money Sentence Examples

  • Bloodshed could only be atoned by blood-money or by shedding the blood of the offender or of his family.

  • Menteith certainly received the blood-money, boo yearly in land, and Wallace, like Montrose, was hanged, disembowelled and quartered (at London, August 1305).

  • He wanted to make a record more visceral and explosive then the more stylized, European, and intricately arranged Alice and Blood Money.

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