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guilt

  [gilt]
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–noun
1. the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, esp. against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.
2. a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined.
3. conduct involving the commission of such crimes, wrongs, etc.: to live a life of guilt.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME gilt, OE gylt offense

Synonyms:
3. criminality.

Antonyms:
1. innocence.
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guilt   (gĭlt)   
n.  
    1. The fact of being responsible for the commission of an offense. See Synonyms at blame.
    2. Law The fact of having been found to have violated a criminal law; legal culpability.
    3. Responsibility for a mistake or error.
    4. Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong.
    5. Self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing.
    1. Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong.
    2. Self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing.
tr.v.   guilt·ed, guilt·ing, guilts
To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty.

[Middle English gilt, from Old English gylt, crime.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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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Language Translation for : guilt
Spanish: culpa, culpabilidad,
German: die Schuld,
Japanese: 罪悪感
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Guilt

Guilt\ (g[i^]lt), n. [OE. gilt, gult, AS. gylt, crime; probably originally signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, v. t.]

1. 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.

Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin. --Milton.

2. Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade. --Kent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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 O.E. gyltig, from gylt.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: guilt
Function: noun
Etymology: Old English gylt delinquency
: the fact of having committed an offense esp. against the law guilt> —compare INNOCENCE
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: guilt
Pronunciation: 'gilt
Function: noun
: feelings of culpability especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy : morbid self-reproach often manifest in marked preoccupation with the moral correctness of one's behavior guilt and uncertainty>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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