Prosecute vs Guilty - What's the difference?
prosecute | guilty |
(legal) To start criminal proceedings against.
* Milton
(legal) To charge, try.
To seek to obtain by legal process.
To pursue something to the end.
* Shakespeare
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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, 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.
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*: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.
(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.}}
In legal|lang=en terms the difference between prosecute and guilty
is that prosecute is (legal) to charge, try while guilty is (legal) a verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.As a verb prosecute
is (legal) to start criminal proceedings against.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.prosecute
English
Verb
(prosecut)- to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
- To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.
- to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
- to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim
- I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?
Derived terms
* prosecutableguilty
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal)Antonyms
* not guilty * innocentNoun
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