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Definition of Guiltiness
1. Noun. The state of having committed an offense.
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status
Specialized synonyms: Blameworthiness, Culpability, Culpableness, Bloodguilt, Complicity, Criminalism, Criminality, Criminalness, Guilt By Association, Impeachability, Indictability
Derivative terms: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
Antonyms: Innocence
Definition of Guiltiness
1. n. The quality or state of being guilty.
Definition of Guiltiness
1. Noun. The state of being guilty; guilt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guiltiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guiltiness
Literary usage of Guiltiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"The guilt of sin which we have committed, they call 'habitual sin;' that is, a
remaining obligation to punishment for an action that is passed, a guiltiness ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1865)
"BOOK I. Of an unregenerate man's guiltiness before God, from the imputation of
Adam's first transgression to every person ..."
3. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"guiltiness can never think itself sure, if there were no fiends to ... O God,
keep me from blood-guiltiness, and from all crying and presumptuous sins; but, ..."
4. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"Go to your bosom ; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's I
ike my brother's fault: if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, ..."
5. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"... in matters of public worship and religion, and also in murder cases, on account
of thé religious significance attached to blood- guiltiness.3 His wife, ..."
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