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w; crime; criminality; offense against right. Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin. Milton.

Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.

In a guilty manner.

The quality or state of being guilty.

Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7.

Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered and said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66. Nor he, nor you, were guilty…

Guiltily. [Obs.] Shak.

To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness (, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.

Not guilty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

he self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.

or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolve…

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

ossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.

ng in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.