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Word Meanings - AGUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. Chaucer.

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  • OFFENDANT
    An offender. Holland.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • WRONGOUS
    Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
  • WRONG
    imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
  • WRONGLESS
    Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
  • WRONGDOING
    Evil or wicked behavior or action.
  • AGAINST
    1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
  • OFFENDER
    One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.
  • WRONGFUL
    Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
  • WRONGHEAD
    A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
  • GUILTY
    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
  • WRONG-TIMED
    Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
  • OFFEND
    1. To transgress the moral or divine law; to commit a crime; to stumble; to sin. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James ii. 10. If it be a sin to cevet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
  • WRONGNESS
    The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
  • WRONGDOER
    One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
  • WRONGLY
    In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
  • WRONGHEADED
    Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
  • WRONGER
    One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
  • GUILTYLIKE
    Guiltily. Shak.
  • INGUILTY
    Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
  • AWRONG
    Wrongly. Ford.
  • SELF-WRONG
    Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.
  • BLOODGUILTY
    Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness (, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.

 

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