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Quilts vs Guilts - What's the difference?

quilts | guilts |

As verbs the difference between quilts and guilts

is that quilts is third person singular simple present of to quilt while guilts is (guilt).

As a noun quilts

is .

quilts

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • Third person singular simple present of to quilt.

    • guilts

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (guilt)

    • guilt

    English

    (wikipedia guilt)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gilt, gult, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.
    • Antonyms
    * innocence
    Derived terms
    * beguilt * guiltless * guiltlessness * guilty * guilt-sick * guilt trip * unguilt
    See also
    * regret * remorse

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gilten, gylten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
  • To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
    • He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.
  • * 1988 , , Healing the shame that binds you ,
    • Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.
  • * 1992 , , Codependent No More: how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself ,
    • We don't have to be manipulated, guilted , coerced, or forced into anything.
  • * 1995 , , True Betrayals ,
    • But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me.