guilt

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This furnished the necessary proof of what they called his guilt, and Caesar ordered him to be beheaded This circumstance produced, of course, a great excitement within the palace, for Pothinus had been for many years the great ruling minister of state,--the king, in fact, in all but in name.

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  1. noun The fact of being responsible for the commission of an offense. See Synonyms at blame.
  2. noun Law Culpability for a crime or lesser breach of regulations that carries a legal penalty.
  3. noun Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong.
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  • "The trials of those accused of witchcraft trouble me, Goodwife Grayson That they will not admit their guilt is a sign of how deeply the Dark One holds them in the palm of his hand." —  BEWITCHING FAMILIAR
  • This furnished the necessary proof of what they called his guilt, and Caesar ordered him to be beheaded. —  Cleopatra
  • But in lean times, their guilt is a conflicting brew of shame (widespread unemployment) and temptation (cut-rate sales). —  Signs of the Times
  • John O'Hara has his suspicions about Nora, but proving her guilt is another matter entirely. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • He doesn't mind at all and we need both our full-time wages to survive, so my guilt is a bit irrational but ever present all the same. —  Express & Star
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  1. Middle English gilt, from Old English gylt, crime.

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  1. The u is a modern and unnecessary insertion, as in the related guild; from Middle English gilt, gylt, gult (where u represents the old sound of y), from Anglo-Saxon gylt, gielt, gilt, a fault, offense, sin, crime; orig. a payment to be made in recompense for a trespass, a debt (being used to translate L. debitum, a debt, in this sense; cf. Middle High German gülte, a debt, a payment, a tax, impost, German gülte, impost, rent, ground-rent), from Anglo-Saxon gildan, gieldan (preterit plural guldon, past participle golden), pay, repay, requite: see yield, and cf. gild.
  2. Middle English gilten, gylten, from Anglo-Saxon gyltan, be guilty, from gylt, guilt: see guilt, n.
 

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