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guilty | beguilt |

As an adjective guilty

is responsible for a dishonest act.

As a noun guilty

is (legal) a plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.

As a verb beguilt is

to make guilty; cause to sin or beguilt can be .

guilty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Responsible for a dishonest act.
  • :
  • (lb) Judged to have committed a crime.
  • :
  • Having a sense of guilt.
  • :
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • Blameworthy.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summereat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty —on the floor.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) (dialectal)

    Antonyms

    * not guilty * innocent

    Related terms

    * guilty as sin

    Noun

    (guilties)
  • (legal) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
  • (legal) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
  • One who is declared guilty of a crime.
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, , Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion citation
    • , passage=The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.}}

    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)