Word Meanings - GUILT-SICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.

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• GUILTLESS
  1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted . Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton.
• GUILTINESS
  The quality or state of being guilty.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• GUILTILY
  In a guilty manner.
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• GUILT-SICK
  Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.
• GUILT
  signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, 1. The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from
• 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
• CONSCIENCELESS
  Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.
• CONSCIOUSNESS
  1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; -- in other words,
• GUILTYLIKE
  Guiltily. Shak.
• SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being self-conscious.
• INGUILTY
  Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
• SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.
• AGUILT
  To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. Chaucer.
• BLOODGUILTY
  Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness (, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.