guilt
English
/ɡɪlt/
noun
Definitions
- Responsibility for wrongdoing.
- (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
- The regret of having done wrong.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English gilt inherited from Old English gylt (crime, guilt, fault, sin, offense).
Origin
Old English
gylt
Gloss
crime, guilt, fault, sin, offense
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beguilt English
- beguilty English
- blood English
- bloodguilt English
- bloodguilty English
- forguilt English
- guilt-ridden English
- guilt-sick English
- guilter English
- guiltfree English
- guiltily English
- guiltiness English
- guiltless English
- guiltlessly English
- guiltlessness English
- guiltlike English
- guiltridden English
- guiltware English
- guilty English
- guiltylike English
- inguilty English
- misguilt English
- nonguilt English
- nonguilty English
- self-guilt English
- sick English
- unguilt English
- unguilting English
- unguilty English
- *geldaną Proto-Germanic
- forgieldan Old English
- gylt Old English
- gyltig Old English
- ġieldan Old English
- begilten Middle English
- forgilten Middle English
- gilt Middle English
- gilty Middle English
- yielden Middle English