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guilt

noun
/ɡɪlt/US

Etymology

From Middle English gilt, gult, from Old English gylt (“guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”), of obscure origin. Possibly related with Old English ġieldan (“to pay, requite, punish”) (whence yield), from Proto-West Germanic *guldijā (whence Middle High German gülte (“debt, fee, financial duty”), Middle Low German gülde, German Gülte), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay for”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”). However, neither the Old English stem form nor its ending -t (instead of -d) fit the continental form.

  1. derived from *geldaną✻
  2. derived from *geldan✻
  3. derived from *guldijā✻
  4. inherited from gylt — “guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”
  5. inherited from gilt

Definitions

  1. Responsibility for wrongdoing.

  2. The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

  3. Regret for having done wrong.

    • Appropriate guilt is experienced when we actually do something objectively wrong—for example, exploit another, betray a trust, and so on. […] Inappropriate guilt occurs from believing a lie and is resolved by an application of the truth.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To commit offenses

      To commit offenses; act criminally.

    2. To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.

      • He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.
      • Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.
      • We don't have to be manipulated, guilted, coerced, or forced into anything.

    3. Obsolete form of gilt (“gilded”)

      • Two silver monteths, two large fflaggons, two large tankards, two silver salvers, a voyder and a knyfe, two silver salts, two guilt bolls of the like size, one other boll, three silver bolls, in all 24 pieces guilt and unguilt.

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Derived

beguilt, bloodguilt, ecoguilt, forguilt, guilt by association, guilt complex, guilter, guiltfree, guilt lane, guiltless, guiltlessness, guiltlike, guilt offering, guilt-ridden, guiltridden, guilt-sick, guilt trip, guilt-trip, guilt-trippy, guiltware, guilty, liberal guilt, magician's guilt, misguilt, nonguilt, self-guilt, survivor guilt, unguilt, white guilt

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at guilt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at guilt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at guilt

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA