Guilts vs Guilty - What's the difference?
guilts | guilty |
(guilt)
Responsibility for wrongdoing.
Awareness of having done wrong.
The fact of having done wrong.
(legal) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
(obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
* 1988 , , Healing the shame that binds you ,
* 1992 , , Codependent No More: how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself ,
* 1995 , , True Betrayals ,
Responsible for a dishonest act.
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(lb) Judged to have committed a crime.
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Having a sense of guilt.
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, 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.
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(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
, 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.}}
As a verb guilts
is (guilt).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.guilts
English
Verb
(head)guilt
English
(wikipedia guilt)Etymology 1
From (etyl) gilt, gult, from (etyl) . See (l).Noun
(-)Antonyms
* innocenceDerived terms
* beguilt * guiltless * guiltlessness * guilty * guilt-sick * guilt trip * unguiltSee also
* regret * remorseEtymology 2
From (etyl) gilten, gylten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.
- Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.
- We don't have to be manipulated, guilted , coerced, or forced into anything.
- But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me.
guilty
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal)Antonyms
* not guilty * innocentNoun
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