noun
the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime : it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt.
• a feeling of having done wrong or failed in an obligation : he remembered with sudden guilt the letter from his mother that he had not yet read.
verb [ trans. ] informal
make (someone) feel guilty, especially in order to induce them to do something : Celeste had been guilted into going by her parents.
PHRASES
guilt by association guilt ascribed to someone not because of any evidence but because of their association with an offender.
ORIGIN Old English gylt, of unknown origin.
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