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NOUN:
  1. The fact of being responsible for the commission of an offense. See Synonyms at blame.
  2. Law Culpability for a crime or lesser breach of regulations that carries a legal penalty.
    1. Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong.
    2. Self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing.
  4. Guilty conduct; sin.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English gilt, from Old English gylt, crime


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