2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Guilty \Guilt"y\, a. [Compar. {Gultier}; superl. {Guiltiest}.]
[AS. gyltig liable. See {Guilt}.]
1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent;
wicked; chargeable with or responsible for something
censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of
and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the
punishment.
They answered and said He is guilty of death.
--Matt. xxvi.
66.
Nor he nor you were guilty of the strife.
--Dryden.
2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as a
guilty look a guilty act a guilty feeling.
3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.] --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
guilty
adj 1: responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act or
marked by guilt; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty
person"; "secret guilty deeds"; "a guilty conscience";
"guilty behavior" [ant: {innocent}]
2: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and
shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
[syn: {hangdog}, {shamefaced}, {shamed}]
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