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Fault vs Beguilt - What's the difference?

fault | beguilt |

In lang=en terms the difference between fault and beguilt

is that fault is to commit a mistake or error while beguilt is to impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.

As verbs the difference between fault and beguilt

is that fault is to criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone while beguilt is to make guilty; cause to sin or beguilt can be .

As a noun fault

is a defect; something that detracts from perfection.

fault

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault .
  • A mistake or error.
    • No!. This is my fault, not yours
  • A weakness of character; a failing.
    • For all her faults , she's a good person at heart.
  • A minor offense.
  • Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
    • The fault lies with you.
  • (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
  • (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
    • slate fault''', dirt '''fault , etc.
    (Raymond)
  • (tennis) An illegal serve.
  • (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
  • (obsolete) want; lack
  • * Shakespeare
    • one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
  • (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.

    Derived terms

    * at fault * double fault * to a fault

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
  • * Traditional song
    • For that I will not fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
  • (geology) To fracture.
  • To commit a mistake or error.
  • (computing) To undergo a page fault.
  • * 2002 , Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
    • When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.

    beguilt

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) begilten, equivalent to .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make guilty; cause to sin.
  • * 1791 , Samuel Ayscough, An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare :
    • Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.
  • * 1977 , Basil Davenport, The portable Roman reader :
    • "Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! [...]"
  • To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.
  • * 1895 , Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library :
    • [...] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.
  • * 1911 , William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris :
    • [...] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.

    Etymology 2

    From begild.

    Verb

    (head)