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guilt
guiltcriminality; culpability; a crime: His guilt was visible on his face.
Not to be confused with:gilt – gold in color; golden: gilt-edged glassesguilt G0127100 (gĭlt)n.1. a. The fact of being responsible for the commission of an offense; moral culpability: The investigation uncovered the suspect's guilt. See Synonyms at blame.b. Law The fact of having been found to have violated a criminal law; legal culpability: The jury's job is to determine the defendant's guilt or innocence.c. Responsibility for a mistake or error: The guilt for the book's many typos lies with the editor.2. A painful emotion experienced when one believes one's actions or thoughts have violated a moral or personal standard: She felt guilt for not having helped the injured animal.tr.v. guilt·ed, guilt·ing, guilts 1. To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty: My roommate guilted me for forgetting to wash the dishes.2. To cause (someone) to do something by arousing feelings of guilt: My roommate guilted me into washing the dishes.
[Middle English gilt, from Old English gylt, crime.]guilt (ɡɪlt) n1. the fact or state of having done wrong or committed an offence2. (Law) responsibility for a criminal or moral offence deserving punishment or a penalty3. remorse or self-reproach caused by feeling that one is responsible for a wrong or offence4. archaic sin or crime[Old English gylt, of obscure origin]guilt (gɪlt)
n. 1. the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, esp. against moral or penal law; culpability: to admit one's guilt in a robbery. 2. a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined. 3. conduct involving the commission of such crimes, wrongs, etc.: to live a life of guilt. [before 1000; Middle English gilt, Old English gylt offense] Guilt See Also: CONSCIENCE - Branded with his guilt as if he were tattooed —Henry Slesar
- Berating himself, like an orator grading his own speech —William Diehl
- Gather guilt like a young intern his symptoms, his certain evidence —Anne Sexton
- Guilt is like mothers. Everyone in the world has at least one. And it’s passed down like a torch to the next generation —Erma Bombeck This has been changed to the present tense from the original, which read: “I figured out long ago that guilt was like mothers. Everyone in the world had at least one. And it was passed down like a torch to the next generation.”
- Guilt, thick as ether, seeped into my body —Jonathan Valin
- Guilt will descend on you like London fog —Walter Allen
- The heat of shame mounted through her legs and body and sounded in her ears like the sound of sand pouring —Nadine Gordimer
- Looked as guilty as if he’d kicked his grandmother —Raymond Chandler
- Looking behind me … as guilty as a murderer whose knife drips blood —Ann Beattie
- Looks like a hound caught slipping a chop from the table —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- A sense of guilt like a scent —Louis MacNeice
- Shame crowding his throat like vomit —Jean Thompson
- The thought of the wrong she had done … aroused in her a feeling akin to revulsion such as a drowning man might feel who had shaken off another man who clung to him in the water —Leo Tolstoy
- We are all like mice: one eats the cheese and all are blamed —Solomon Ibn Vega
Guilt caught with one’s hand in the cookie jar Taken by surprise in the process of wrongdoing; caught red-handed. This expression implies that the person caught is not only surprised, but is also in possession of self-incriminating material. Though the image is that of a mischievous child atop a counter engaged in normal childhood activities, in context the phrase is often used for serious adult wrongdoing, particularly political graft. caught with one’s pants down See VULNERABILITY. cry peccavi To confess one’s guilt; to openly acknowledge one’s fault or wrongdoing. The origin of this expression is the Latin peccavi I have sinned.’ Both peccavi ‘an acknowledgement of guilt’ and cry peccavi date from the 16th century. Now lowly crouch’d, I cry peccavi, And prostrate, supplicate pour ma vie.
(Jonathan Swift, Sheridan’s Submission, 1730) dead to rights See CERTAINTY. red-handed In the act, with clear evidence of guilt, in flagrante delicto. This term evolved from the earlier with red hand and with bloody hand. tarred with the same brush See SIMILARITY. with bloody hand Guilty; caught red-handed or in flagrante delicto. According to the Forest Law of ancient Britain, a man found with bloody hand was presumed guilty of having killed the king’s deer. with egg on one’s face See HUMILIATION. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  guilt - the state of having committed an offenseguiltinesscondition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"blameworthiness, culpability, culpableness - a state of guiltbloodguilt - the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murdercomplicity - guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offensecriminalism, criminality, criminalness - the state of being a criminalguilt by association - the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guiltyimpeachability, indictability - the state of being liable to impeachmentinnocence - a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence" | | 2. | guilt - remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offenseguilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty consciencecompunction, remorse, self-reproach - a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)survivor guilt - a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died; "survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust" |
guiltnoun1. shame, regret, remorse, contrition, guilty conscience, bad conscience, self-reproach, self-condemnation, guiltiness Her emotions went from anger to guilt in the space of a few seconds.
shame honour, pride, self-respect2. culpability, blame, responsibility, misconduct, delinquency, criminality, wickedness, iniquity, sinfulness, blameworthiness, guiltiness You were never convinced of his guilt, were you?
culpability virtue, innocence, righteousness, sinlessness, blamelessnessQuotations
"This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted" [Juvenal Satires]
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt"
"It spills itself in fearing to be spilt" [William Shakespeare Hamlet]guiltnounResponsibility for an error or crime:blame, culpability, fault, onus.Translationsguilt (gilt) noun1. a sense of shame. a feeling of guilt. 內疚 内疚2. the state of having done wrong. Fingerprints proved the murderer's guilt. 罪行 罪行ˈguilty adjective having, feeling, or causing guilt. The jury found the prisoner guilty; a guilty conscience. 有罪的 有罪的ˈguiltiness noun 有罪 有罪ˈguiltily adverbHe looked at his mother guiltily. 內疚地 内疚地guilt
absolve from guiltTo consider innocent, clear of all suspicion, or pardon from any cause of guilt. The knights of the crusades committed many atrocities in their campaign, but they were absolved from guilt by the heads of the church.See also: absolve, guiltabsolved from guiltConsidered innocent, cleared of all suspicion, or pardoned from any cause of guilt. The knights of the crusades committed many atrocities in their campaign, but they were regarded as absolved from guilt because of their religious patronage.See also: absolve, guiltguilt complexA very strong and persistent feeling of guilt regarding something or some event. John developed a guilt complex after forcing his brother to move out.See also: guiltguilt trip1. noun A deep feeling of guilt or remorse. I'm having a guilt trip for not being able to attend my sister's wedding.2. verb To make others feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate them. Kelly's parents were always trying to guilt trip her for not giving them grandchildren. You can't guilt trip me into donating money, I give enough to charity already.See also: guilt, tripsend (one) on a guilt tripTo make one feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate. Kelly's parents were always trying to send her on a guilt trip for not giving them grandchildren. These charity commercials are really sending me on a guilt trip. I guess that's a sign I should donate.See also: guilt, on, send, tripput a guilt trip on (one)To make one feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate. Kelly's parents were always trying to put a guilt trip on her for not giving them grandchildren. These charity commercials are really putting a guilt trip on me. I guess that's a sign I should donate.See also: guilt, on, put, triplay a guilt trip on (one)To make one feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate. Kelly's parents were always trying to lay a guilt trip on her for not giving them grandchildren. These charity commercials are really laying a guilt trip on me. I guess that's a sign I should donate.See also: guilt, lay, on, tripracked with guiltSuffering from, preoccupied by, or paralyzed with an intense and overwhelming feeling of guilt. I've been racked with guilt every since I took that bribe. I don't know how people can take advantage of others like that. If it were me, I'd be racked with guilt for doing something so heinous.See also: guilt, rackeaten up with (something)Obsessed, overcome, or preoccupied with some negative emotion. I've been eaten up with anger ever since I found out that my co-worker totally sabotaged me for that promotion. I'm really worried about Wendy—she's still eaten up with guilt over what happened.See also: eaten, upa ˈguilt trip (informal) things you say to somebody in order to make them feel guilty about something: Don’t lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.See also: guilt, triplay a (heavy) trip on someone1. tv. to criticize someone. There’s no need to lay a trip on me. I agree with you. 2. tv. to confuse or astonish someone. After he laid a heavy trip on me about how the company is almost broke, I cleaned out my desk and left. 3. and lay a guilt trip on someone tv. to attempt to make someone feel very guilty. Why do you have to lay a guilt trip on me? Why don’t you go to a shrink? Keep your problems to yourself. Don’t lay a trip on me! See also: heavy, lay, on, someone, triplay a guilt trip on someone verbSee lay a heavy trip on someoneSee also: guilt, lay, on, someone, trip lay a guilt trip on To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty.See also: guilt, lay, on, tripguilt
guilt, in psychology, a term denoting an unpleasant feeling associated with unfulfilled wishes. Sigmund FreudFreud, Sigmund
, 1856–1939, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis. Born in Moravia, he lived most of his life in Vienna, receiving his medical degree from the Univ. of Vienna in 1881.
His medical career began with an apprenticeship (1885–86) under J.
..... Click the link for more information. initially contended that sexual drives produce sense of guilt in the superego, the moral conscience of the mind. He later maintained, however, that guilt was associated with aggressive impulses. Freud felt that guilt was often confused with remorse, the former being an emotion signaling the presence of aggressive wishes, the latter a self-imposed punishment which occurs if the aggressive wish is fulfilled. Individuals suffering from various neurotic disorders may experience feelings of guilt and remorse even when they have not acted on their aggressive impulses. The term guilt is most commonly used in traditional psychoanalysis, as a way of describing unconscious processes which may lead to neurotic reactions. It is also used in criminal law, in cases where a defendant is found to be responsible for the crime for which he is on trial. Bibliography See L. Wurmser, The Mask of Shame (1981). Guilt in law. Guilt usually covers the inner, subjective aspect of a harmful or socially dangerous action or nonfeasance that violates a legal norm. It refers to the psychological relationship of a person to the nature of the act he commits and its consequences. On this level the concept of guilt includes intent and negligence. In criminal law it sometimes also includes the motive, aim, and other elements of the subjective aspect of a crime. Soviet criminal legislation offers definitions of intent and negligence (Principles of Criminal Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics of 1958, arts. 8 and 9) that are also commonly used in other branches of law in the analysis of these concepts. A crime is considered to have been committed intentionally if the person who committed it was aware of the socially dangerous nature of his action or nonfeasance and foresaw its socially dangerous consequences and desired them or consciously allowed them to happen. In this definition the desire for the consequences is usually called specific intent. Consciously allowing the occurrence of the consequences is called general intent. In this case, the person does not stand to gain from the socially dangerous consequences; he foresees the possibility of their occurrence but nevertheless commits the criminal act. With respect to circumstances that are part of the «corpus delicti but do not belong to the category of consequences (for instance, unusual cruelty in the method of killing), intent is expressed in an awareness of the circumstances and is not further divided into specific and general intent. In defining individual intentional crimes, the legislator often narrows the sphere of accusation (impleading) by including in the text of the law special instructions on particular psychological connections with individual elements of a given corpus delicti. For example, defamation (Criminal Code of the RFSFR, art. 130) presupposes a knowledge that the fabrications defaming another person are false—that is, a crime is committed if the person spreading defamatory information about another person knows (and is not merely aware) that this information does not correspond to reality. A crime is considered to have been committed through negligence if the person who committed it foresaw the possibility of the socially dangerous consequences of his action or nonfeasance but thoughtlessly hoped that they would be averted (so-called criminal conceit). It is also considered to have been committed through negligence if the person failed to foresee the possibility of the consequences of an act, although he could and should have foreseen them (so-called criminal negligence). Conceit comes close to intent, since both concepts presuppose foreseeing the consequences; however, conceit is characterized by the expectation of some actual circumstances (action of the guilty person himself or other persons, forces of nature, and so forth) that should have prevented the occurrence of the socially dangerous result. A person’s guilt, which substantiates the condemnation of his behavior and his responsibility of the harm caused, lies in the fact that this expectation turns out to be thoughtless; had he shown greater attention, the guilty person would have had different expectations or would have refrained from committing the act. Negligence is characterized by a person’s failure to foresee the possibility of the occurrence of consequences; however, being aware or being obliged to be aware of the socially dangerous nature of his action or nonfeasance, he should therefore have foreseen its socially dangerous consequences. Moreover, in order to substantiate the responsibility for negligence, it must be established that by virtue of his individual traits and work experience or in view of the circumstances of a specific case, a person could have foreseen the occurrence of the consequences. If in the absence of negligence in the acts there is an accident, prosecution is excluded. The principle of impleading only when there is guilt is not universally applied in law, including Soviet law. Thus, article 454 of the Civil Code of the RSFSR obliges the owner of a source of special danger (for example, an automobile) to compensate for the harm caused by such a source in all cases where the owner cannot prove that the harm arose as a consequence of an act of god or the intent of the victim. At the same time, guilt is not always identified with the subjective aspect of a crime in the theory of criminal law; it is sometimes treated as the fact of the commission of a crime—an offense of a person against the state or the people. In literature different meanings are sometimes attached to the concept of guilt. For example, guilt may be interpreted as a necessary subjective element of crime (so-called narrow guilt) or as the general substantiation of a person’s legal responsibility—his guilt in the commission of a violation of the law (so-called broad guilt). B. S. NIKIFOROV Guilt (dreams)Guilt can carry over into sleep and induce anxiety when we experience it in our dreams. Survivor guilt often surfaces in the dreams of military veterans and in civilians who experienced a traumatic accident that they survived while someone close to them did not. They often ask why they made it through and feel guilty because someone else lost his or her life or was seriously injured, even though the dreamer was not responsible. These feelings are carried over into the dream state; often, the dreamer replays the events in his or her mind over and over in vivid detail. Sometimes the subconscious will modify the dream so that the survivor takes the place of the victim, or other, similar, variations occur. Repeating nightmares is a major symptom of the anxiety neurosis caused by a deep emotional trauma. The guilt experienced in these dreams is often accompanied by grief and anger. Sexual feelings—particularly sexual attractions at variance with social norms such as adultery, homosexuality, and incestuous desires—can also cause guilt that leads to anxiety dreams. Sex in dreams or nightmares often represents a more complex aspect of our personalities—something more than simply our attitudes and our desires for the act of sex itself. In other words, in these kinds of dreams sexual relations can be symbolic of other issues; they don’t always represent a straightforward desire for physical relations. Guilt can also manifest in dreams when the dreamer is feeling anxious about her or his “shadow self.” Our shadow is the neglected or repressed part of each of us. It is common to refrain from confronting this aspect of our personality out of fear of what we might discover about ourselves. It can stem from insecurities about how we feel we are viewed by society or how we might or might not fit into what is acceptable or “normal.” The guilt associated with this “shadow self” tends to cause an individual to develop a second personality to hide the traits that he or she feels are unacceptable. Some symbolism regarding this dual self can be manifested in dreams. These dreams of “false-self” are most common when dealing with repressed personality traits. guilt Law responsibility for a criminal or moral offence deserving punishment or a penalty guilt
guilt (gĭlt)n.1. a. The fact of being responsible for the commission of an offense; moral culpability: The investigation uncovered the suspect's guilt.b. Law The fact of having been found to have violated a criminal law; legal culpability: The jury's job is to determine the defendant's guilt or innocence.c. Responsibility for a mistake or error: The guilt for the book's many typos lies with the editor.2. Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong or violating a rule: Do you feel any guilt for forgetting my birthday? The dieter felt guilt for snacking between meals.tr.v. guilted, guilting, guilts 1. To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty: My roommate guilted me for forgetting to wash the dishes.2. To cause (someone) to do something by arousing feelings of guilt: My roommate guilted me into washing the dishes.guilt Psychiatry Emotion resulting from doing what one perceives of as wrong, thereby violating superego precepts; results in feelings of worthlessness and at times the need for punishment. See Shame. guilt A state of distress usually caused by the belief that one has contravened accepted moral, ethical, religious or legal standards of behaviour. Early conditioning in such matters remains powerful throughout life and guilt may be experienced even when early precepts have been long-since been abandoned as illogical. A deep, and seemingly inappropriate, sense of guilt is often a feature of psychiatric disorder.guilt
Related to guilt: giltguilt responsibility for a criminal or moral offence deserving punishment or a penalty.GUILT, crim. law. That quality which renders criminal and liable to punishment; or it is that disposition to violate the law, which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence. Vide Rutherf. Inst. B. 1, c. 18, s. 10.
2. In general everyone is presumed innocent until guilt has been proved; but in some cases the presumption of guilt overthrows that of innocence; as, for example, where a party destroys evidence to which the opposite party is entitled. The spoliation of papers, material to show the neutral character of a vessel, furnishes strong presumption against the neutrality of the ship. 2 Wheat. 227. Vide Spoliation. GUILT
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guilt
Related to guilt: giltSynonyms for guiltnoun shameSynonyms- shame
- regret
- remorse
- contrition
- guilty conscience
- bad conscience
- self-reproach
- self-condemnation
- guiltiness
Antonymsnoun culpabilitySynonyms- culpability
- blame
- responsibility
- misconduct
- delinquency
- criminality
- wickedness
- iniquity
- sinfulness
- blameworthiness
- guiltiness
Antonyms- virtue
- innocence
- righteousness
- sinlessness
- blamelessness
Synonyms for guiltnoun responsibility for an error or crimeSynonyms- blame
- culpability
- fault
- onus
Synonyms for guiltnoun the state of having committed an offenseSynonymsRelated Words- condition
- status
- blameworthiness
- culpability
- culpableness
- bloodguilt
- complicity
- criminalism
- criminality
- criminalness
- guilt by association
- impeachability
- indictability
Antonymsnoun remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offenseSynonyms- guilt feelings
- guilt trip
- guilty conscience
Related Words- compunction
- remorse
- self-reproach
- survivor guilt
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