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guilt noun blame, blameworthiness, breach of law, censurability, corruption, crime, criminal activity, criminal deed, criminal offense, criminality, criminousness, culpa, delict, delinquency, deviation from rectitude, fault, felonious conduct, ill conduct, immorality, improbity, improper conduct, iniquity, law-breaking, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision, noxia, offense, offense against the law, offensiveness, official misconduct, peccancy, reprehensibility, reproach, sin, sinfulness, transgression, turpitude, unlawful practice, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, violation, violation of law, vitium, wrong, wrongdoing Associated concepts: admission of guilt, finding of guilt, guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, guilt by association, nolo contendre, presumption of innocence Foreign phrases: Cum par delictum est duorum, semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa.When there is equal fault on both sides, the burden is allays placed on the plaintiff, and the cause of the possessor is preferred. Quae sunt minoris culpae sunt majoris infamiae. Those things which are less culpable may be more infamous. Poenae suos tenere debet actores et non alios. Punishment belongs to the guilty, and not othhrs. Excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus quod non operatur idem in civilibus. That excuses or extenuutes a wrong in capital cases which would not have the same effect in civil suits. See also: blame, criminality, culpability GUILT, crim. law. That quality which renders criminal and liable to
punishment; or it is that disposition to violate the law, which has
manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence. Vide
Rutherf. Inst. B. 1, c. 18, s. 10.
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But ``the biggie'' release, she said, concerns the hurts and the guilts of relationships with family members. New parental guilts can develop, about providing children an adequate array of goods and entertainment but also appropriate schooling, across cultural boundaries. And Gramps don't have much use for those who come slinking out of the woodwork gripped by the guilts after the fact, either. |
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