different between blame vs criminate
blame
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ble?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Vulgar Latin *blast?m?re, present active infinitive of *blast?m?, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasph?m?, ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Replaced common use of native wite (“blame, guilt, wrongdoing, offense, fine, punishment”) (from Middle English w?tan, from Middle English w?te). Doublet of blaspheme.
Noun
blame (uncountable)
- Censure.
- Blame came from all directions.
- Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
- Responsibility for something meriting censure.
- They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
- (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
Derived terms
- blame game
- put the blame on
Translations
See also
- fault
Etymology 2
From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasph?m? (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English w?ten, from Old English w?tan).
Verb
blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
- 1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace:
- That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 106:
- I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
- The arsonist was blamed for the fire.
Synonyms
- (censure; criticize): reproach, shend, take to task, upbraid
- (consider that someone is the cause of something negative): hold to account
Derived terms
- blamer, be to blame
Translations
Anagrams
- Amble, Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, amble, belam, melba
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French blasme, a deverbal noun from blasmer (“to criticise”).
Alternative forms
- blam (rare)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bla?m(?)/
Noun
blame (uncountable)
- criticism, condemnation
- accusation (especially legal)
- blame, culpability
- offence, misdeed
- imperfection, downside
- disrepute, dishonour
- blasphemy, irreverence
Descendants
- English: blame
- Scots: blame
References
- “bl?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Verb
blame
- Alternative form of blamen
Walloon
Noun
blame f (plural blames)
- flame
- Synonym: flame
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criminate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crimino, criminatus.
Verb
criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)
- (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]
- 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:
- ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’
- 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:
- (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]
Derived terms
Related terms
- crimination
Translations
Anagrams
- anticrime, antimeric, carminite, macrinite, metrician
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kri?.mi?na?.te/, [k?i?m??nä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kri.mi?na.te/, [k?imi?n??t??]
Verb
cr?min?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of cr?min?
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