guilt

1. 1

   Responsibility for wrongdoing.uncountableusually

2. 2

   The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.uncountableusually

3. 3

   Regret for having done wrong.uncountableusually

   • Appropriate guilt is experienced when we actually do something objectively wrong—for example, exploit another, betray a trust, and so on. […] Inappropriate guilt occurs from believing a lie and is resolved by an application of the truth.

syn. blameworthiness · culpability · guilt · guiltiness · noninnocence · uninnocence

ant. innocence

1. 1

   To commit offenses; act criminally.intransitiveobsolete

1. 1

   To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.informaltransitive

   • He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.

1. 1

   Obsolete form of gilt (“gilded”)alt-ofnot-comparableobsolete

   • 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.