a. Worthy or deserving of blame, culpable.
1387. Trevisa, Higden, VI. xxvii. Bote he was i-founde blameworþy in his answere.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 38. Blameworthy, culpabilis.
1533. More, Apol., xi. Wks. 869/2. I am not greatlye blame woorthye therein.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., xvii. (1700), 167. All men are so far free as to be praise-worthy or blame-worthy for the Good or Evil that they do.
1876. J. Grote, Eth. Fragm., iii. 58. Every action which is wrong or blameworthy.
Hence Blameworthiness.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 15. The blame-worthinesse is, that to heare them, he rather goes to solitarinesse.
1754. Edwards, Freed. Will, IV. xiii. (1762), 282. The nature of Blame-worthiness or Ill-desert.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., 1355. Blame I can bear, though not blameworthiness.
