Guilt
[gɪlt] or [ɡɪlt]
Definition
(noun.) remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.
(noun.) the state of having committed an offense.
Typed by Keller--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.
(v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.
Typist: Ora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Criminality, guiltiness, culpability.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Criminality, sin, offence, culpability,[See GUILE_and_CRIME]
Edited by Adrian
Definition
n. punishable conduct: the state of having broken a law: crime: wickedness.—adv. Guilt′ily.—n. Guilt′iness.—adj. Guilt′less free from crime: innocent.—adv. Guilt′lessly.—n. Guilt′lessness.—adj. Guilt′y justly chargeable with a crime: wicked: pertaining to guilt.—adv. Guilt′y-like (Shak.) guiltily.—Guilty of (sometimes in B.) deserving.
p.adj. (Spens.) gilded.
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Examples
- Falsehood and artifice are in themselves so hateful, that, though I still thought I did right, a feeling of shame and guilt came painfully upon me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Nothing could do away the knowledge of what the latter had suffered through his means, nor remove the guilt of his conduct towards Eliza. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- And it may lessen his guilt if I say that it was done in self-defence, and that John Straker was a man who was entirely unworthy of your confidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Damsel, he said, if the pity I feel for thee arise from any practice thine evil arts have made on me, great is thy guilt. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then thou dost persist in thy refusal to confess thy guilt, and in that bold challenge which thou hast made? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Never certainly have I seen a plainer confession of guilt upon human countenances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She dared not come oftener, for in the mighty guilt of her conscience she feared that her every move was watched. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But both were, in those ignorant and superstitions times, easily credited as proofs of guilt. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- My stripes were sore and stiff, and made me cry afresh, when I moved; but they were nothing to the guilt I felt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We often hear (almost invariably, however, from superficial observers) that guilt can look like innocence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To fly would be a confession of guilt. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or, assuming it to be false, could the conclusion which associated Sir Percival with her guilt have been founded in some inconceivable error? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The person to whom I addressed myself added, that Justine had already confessed her guilt. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- McFarlane's guilt definitely established. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Their minds are unhinged by their great guilt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Lyle