Unguilt vs Unguilty - What's the difference?
unguilt | unguilty |
To remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.
*1986 , Edward Haymes, Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, Midwest Modern Language Association, The Dark figure in medieval German and Germanic literature :
*2006 , Libby Sternberg, Finding the Forger :
*2009 , David Janssen, Edward Whitelock, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music - Page 72 :
Guiltlessness; innocence.
*1853 , Francis Lieber, On civil liberty and self-government - Page 21 :
*1976 , Rochelle Heller Stone, Boles?aw Le?mian: The Poet and His Poetry :
*2015 , Micah Blacklight, Chapter Twenty-One: Songhai :
Not gilt or gilded.
*1696''', 1903 , The Connoisseur: Volume 5 - Page 204:
(archaic) Not guilty; innocent.
*{{quote-book, year=1544-1595, author=Edward Fairfax (1560-1635);, title=Jerusalem Delivered, chapter=, edition=
, passage=XLVI "Tell me what will you do? why would you stain Your noble hands in our unguilty blood? }}
*{{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And further I imagined and sayd, Alasse what Judge is he that is so gentle or benigne, that will thinke that I am unguilty of the slaughter and murther of these three men. }}
As adjectives the difference between unguilt and unguilty
is that unguilt is not gilt or gilded while unguilty is not guilty; innocent.As a verb unguilt
is to remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.As a noun unguilt
is guiltlessness; innocence.unguilt
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Etymology 1
From .Verb
(en verb)- [...] admits his guilt and then finds relatives who want to "unguilt " him, [...]
- But I felt unguilted as soon as I did it. It made the whole incident feel normal, run-of-the-mill.
- No sin goes unpunished here, no joy unguilted .
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(-)- The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt , innocence.
- ("I love you for the unguilt of your madness . . .")
- When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration.
Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(en adjective)- Two silver monteths, two large fflaggons, two large tankards, two silver salvers , a voyder and a knyfe, two silver salts, two guilt bolls of the like size, one other boll, three silver bolls, in all 24 pieces guilt and unguilt .
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