Search for: guilt
5241 Etymology dictionary, p. misprision (n.).3
… of guilt (those not subject to capital punishment), especially for knowing of treasonable actions or plots without assenting to them, but not informing the …
5242 Etymology dictionary, p. nolo contendere.2
… no guilt but subjects the defendant to judgment. In effect, a guilty plea, but it allows the pleader to deny the truth of the charges in a collateral proceeding …
5243 Etymology dictionary, p. ordeal (n.).3
… person's guilt or innocence by immediate judgment of the deity, an ancient Teutonic mode of trial. They were abolished in England in the reign of Henry III …
5244 Etymology dictionary, p. purification (n.).2
… from guilt or defilement," originally especially in reference to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, from Old French purificacion, from Latin …
5245 Etymology dictionary, p. rank (adj.).4
… another's guilt" (1929, underworld slang) and that of "to harass, insult, abuse," 1934, African-American vernacular, though this also may be so called from the role …
5246 Etymology dictionary, p. redd (v.).2
… (Satan, guilt, etc.), deliver, recover, rescue," from Proto-Germanic *hradjan (source also of Old Frisian hredda, Dutch redden, Old High German retten ).
5247 Etymology dictionary, p. remorse (n.).2
… of guilt; the pain of a guilty conscience," late 14c., from Old French remors (Modern French remords ) and directly from Medieval Latin remorsum "a biting back or …
5248 Etymology dictionary, p. remorseful (adj.).2
"characterized by remorse, burdened with a painful sense of guilt and penitence due to consciousness of guilt," 1590s, from remorse + -ful. Related: Remorsefully; remorsefulness .
5249 Etymology dictionary, p. sake (n.1).2
… , sin, guilt;" from Old English sacu "a cause at law, crime, dispute, guilt," from Proto-Germanic *sako "affair, thing, charge, accusation" (source also of Old Norse sök "charge …
5250 Etymology dictionary, p. self-abasement (n.).2
"humiliation proceeding from guilt, shame, or consciousness of unworthiness; degradation of oneself by one's own act," 1650s; see self- + abasement .
5251 Etymology dictionary, p. shall (v.).2
… scyld "guilt," German Schuld "guilt, debt;" also Old Norse Skuld, name of one of the Norns.
5252 Etymology dictionary, p. shame (n.).2
… of guilt or disgrace; confusion caused by shame; state of being in disgrace; dishonor, insult, loss of esteem or reputation; shameful circumstance, what brings …
5253 Etymology dictionary, p. sheer (adj.).2
… from guilt" (as in Sheer Thursday, the Thursday of Holy Week, the day before the Crucifixion); later schiere "thin, sparse" (c. 1400), a variant of skere, from late Old …
5254 Etymology dictionary, p. sin (n.).2
… , feud; guilt, crime, misdeed," from Proto-Germanic *sundiō "sin" (source also of Old Saxon sundia, Old Frisian sende, Middle Dutch sonde, Dutch zonde, German Sünde "sin …
5255 Etymology dictionary, p. sooth (n.).3
… to guilt via "being the one;" see sin (v.)), from PIE *hes-ont- "being, existence," thus "real, true" (from present participle of root *es- "to be"), also preserved in Latin sunt "they …
5256 Etymology dictionary, p. stain (v.).3
… with guilt or infamy" is from early 15c. The intransitive sense of "become stained, take stain, absorb coloring matter" is from 1877. In Middle and early modern …
5257 Etymology dictionary, p. stained (adj.).2
late 14c., "discolored," also "tainted with guilt; ornamented with colored designs or pictures," past-participle adjective from stain (v.). Stained glass is attested by that name from 1783.
5258 Etymology dictionary, p. survivor (n.).4
Survivor syndrome as a name for the feeling of guilt in some who have lived through a traumatic event in which others died is recorded by 1968. The idea is slightly older.
5259 Etymology dictionary, p. vitiligo (n.).2
1650s, from Latin vitiligo "a kind of cutaneous eruption, tetter" (Celsus), perhaps with an original sense of "blemish," from PIE *wi-tu-, from root *wei- (3) "vice, fault, guilt" (see vice (n.1)).
5260 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Accountability.3
… the guilt; because as is well known, moral sensitiveness can be lost through persistent disregard of conscience; from which it might seem to follow that the …