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noun

the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.

a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined.

conduct involving the commission of such crimes, wrongs, etc.: to live a life of guilt.

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verb (used with object) Informal.

to cause to feel guilty (often followed by out or into): She totally guilted me out, dude. He guilted me into picking up the tab. See also guilt-trip.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English gilt, Old English gylt offense

Related forms

non·guilt, noun

pre·guilt, noun

Can be confused: gild, gilt, guild, guilt.

Synonyms
3. criminality.

Antonyms
1. innocence.

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The law requires the prosecution to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

What kind of dentistry museum would this be if it didn't guilt visitors into thinking.

Generally the accused does not conduct the investigation into his own guilt.

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The law requires the prosecution to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

What kind of dentistry museum would this be if it didn't guilt visitors into thinking.

Generally the accused does not conduct the investigation into his own guilt.

For me there's a lot of survivor's guilt about the three people who didn't get out of my office that day.

It's much easier to shame and guilt than work for a solution.

We look hard at their faces, calculating guilt or innocence.

So he installed fake turf and got the look without the guilt.

After the break, and in keeping with the consciousness of guilt theme….

The heathen way to make guilt personal is to make it personal, and not talk about it.

It would be such a relief to finally accept that a different path is for me and to let go of the guilt and uncertainty.

Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt doesn't mean guilt beyond every fantastic possibility.

He admitted his guilt but tried to claim it was self-defense.

Freud tried to reduce the importance of guilt conciousness in his patience.

If you're a home beer brewer, you've probably experienced a slight twang of guilt in the early stages of the brewing process.

It's rampant and no one is pointing big fingers of guilt at anyone.

Government employees can serve as judges but there should always be the option to demand a jury verdict on guilt or innocence.

There's even a photo of a landfill on the trash can to guilt you into throwing that paper cup into the right receptacle.

Sometimes, an emoticon can do more than guilt when it comes to making a difference.

What happened next has disappeared into an anguished blur of guilt and confusion.

It centered on two themes familiar to any long-distance couple and perfectly designed to maximize my feelings of guilt and stress.

But of course it is the guilt of politicians, rather than that of bureaucrats and scientists, which will excite most.

Add guilt and post-traumatic stress, and you might think the survivors could face a permanent psychological handicap.

Collective dishonor is not the same as collective guilt.

They were terrific risk-takers and were apparently untroubled by guilt or doubts.

The ideation that can take place during the theta state is often free flow and occurs without censorship or guilt.

Don't give them tons of one-on-one attention to make up for some sort of guilt from the academic establishment.

Stop using your own guilt as a way of denying scientific studies.

Gee whiz, what does it take for a person to admit guilt.

The scriptures do not agree on the governor's ultimate degree of guilt or innocence.

While this study may lessen a bit of my guilt for traveling by plane, it truly reinforces my preference for the train.

When guilt started to overcome her, she soon realized the importance of the locket for.

We don't always want a provenance lecture, a guilt trip, or another reason to.

The unique thing about the current extinction is that we're at the center of it, and there's a lot of guilt about that.

He understood that sympathy, and the sea of old guilt that lies beneath it.

Any of these groups that begins to adopt a culture of existential guilt will inevitably wane in relation to other groups.

Your guilt and your politically correct terms keep us divided and set apart.

Eco-conscious travelers buy off their global warming guilt with carbon offsets that promote.

Try to think of the big flying palmetto bugs as small crunchy pigeons that you can kill without guilt.

America's farmers have not been seized by sudden guilt.

So figure out what you can live with cutting, and snip away, guilt free.

He could make an uncharacteristic admission of guilt and plea bargain.

One thing they all seemed to have in common was tremendous guilt towards their parents.

Like you may have fear or terror because of an event and you may also have guilt for not responding a certain way.

Sociopaths who don't feel guilt and people who learn to inhibit their reactions to stress can slip through a polygrapher's net.

Compromising your own future because of guilt is futile.

My mom used to use old fashioned guilt as a way to keep us in line.

So consider this a preemptive attack, a giant guilt trip on the file-sharing public.

It keeps the population in a state of guilt so they are more easily manipulated.

You'll only end up ceding ground once you become awash with guilt.

Motherhood comes with a full set of guilt already included so avoid additional reasons to add to your guilt load.

Gee no articles on cold fusion- maybe the carbon fools can not adjust to life without guilt.

It was an extraordinary and unprecedented effort to prove the guilt of a man who was never arrested for any.

There's plenty of guilt to go around, including systemic problems.

For those who have not made peace with these proclivities it can be frustrating and guilt ridden.

By freeing us from the guilt of poor decisions made in the past.

Overcome your inhibitions and that crippling feeling of guilt and shame, and you perform better than before.

Publicity stunts have been performed to extract money from the perpetually guilt ridden hand wringers.

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guilt (ɡɪlt)

—n
1.	the fact or state of having done wrong or committed an offence
2.	responsibility for a criminal or moral offence deserving punishment or a penalty
3.	remorse or self-reproach caused by feeling that one is responsible for a wrong or offence
4.	archaic sin or crime

[Old English gylt, of obscure origin]

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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon

Main Entry:	guilt
Part of Speech:	v
Definition:	to make someone feel guilty, esp. in hopes of getting them to do something
Example:	He guilted her into calling her mother-in-law.

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Word Origin & History

guilt

O.E. gylt "crime, sin, fault, fine," of unknown origin, though some suspect a connection to O.E. gieldan "to pay for, debt," but O.E.D. editors find this "inadmissible phonologically." The mistaken use for "sense of guilt" is first recorded 1690. Guilt by association first recorded 1941. Guilty is from

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O.E. gyltig, from gylt.

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