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GUILT

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUILT  , a

lapse from duty, a crime, now usually the fact of wilful wrong-doing, the condition of being guilty of a crime, hence conduct deserving of punishment . The O . Eng. form of the word is gylt .

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