Definition of guilt

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Guilt (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

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Treasonable :: Treasonable (a.) Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt..
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed..
Preeminent :: Preeminent (a.) Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preeminent in guilt..
Guilt-sick :: Guilt-sick (a.) Made sick by consciousness of guilt.
Clear :: Clear (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
Barrator :: Barrator (v. i.) One guilty of barratry.
Cleanse :: Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean..
Reprove :: Reprove (v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
Mutiny :: Mutiny (v. i.) To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority..
Difference :: Difference (n.) The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?.
Self-reproved :: Self-reproved (a.) Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
Conscious :: Conscious (a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt..
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit..
Flagitious :: Flagitious (a.) Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.
Righteous :: Righteous (a.) Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..
Convict :: Convict (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience..
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty..
Expiable :: Expiable (a.) Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt..
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