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unguilt

verb

Etymology

From un- + guilt (“gilt”).

  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
  6. prefixed as unguilt — “un + guilt”

Definitions

  1. To remove the sin or guilt from

    To remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.

    • [...] admits his guilt and then finds relatives who want to "unguilt" him, [...]
    • But I felt unguilted as soon as I did it. It made the whole incident feel normal, run-of-the-mill.
    • No sin goes unpunished here, no joy unguilted.

  2. Guiltlessness

    Guiltlessness; innocence.

    • The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt, innocence.
    • ("I love you for the unguilt of your madness . . .")
    • When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration.

  3. Obsolete form of ungilt (“not 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unguilt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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