/ɡɪlt/
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Translation
The bad feeling you have when you know you did something wrong; also the fact that you broke a rule or a law.
Word origin
From Old English gylt, meaning a crime or a fault; where the word came from before that is unknown.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- gylt
- English cognates
- guilty
Examples
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Guilt is the feeling; guilty is what you are.
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Guilt is uncountable, so it takes no a and no plural.
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In law, guilt is the fact that a person really did the crime.
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