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guiltiness

[ UK /ɡˈɪltɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of having committed an offense

How To Use guiltiness In A Sentence

  • It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. The Essays
  • No one would have any doubts about the guiltiness of the Bulgarian.
  • But his heart raced anyway, as the light shifted over the torrential waves of vehicles, because there was a feeling of guiltiness in his heart, like he was hiding.
  • “only it is the fashion to seem white and harmless — a sort of token of not-guiltiness, as I may say, which folks desire to show the world, whether they be truly guilty or not; but I cannot say that guiltiness or not-guiltiness argufies much, saving they be words in the verdict.” Peveril of the Peak
  • “In doing so,” returned the bishop, “thou wilt best atone for the injury which thou hast done to the law of Heaven upon former occasions, and thou shalt prevent the causes for strife betwixt thee and thy brethren of the southern land, and shalt eschew the temptation towards that blood-guiltiness which is so rife in this our day and generation. Castle Dangerous
  • “A contrived sense of guiltiness,” wrote analyst Stephen Mitchell, “can serve as a psychological defense against a more genuine sense of pathos or sadness for oneself.” THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
  • He apologized when he had realized his guiltiness.
  • It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with bloodguiltiness. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • The cities of refuge provided protection for the one who accidentally killed another, and they helped to prevent blood guiltiness for the shedding of innocent blood (19:10).
  • You pull me into a feeling of guiltiness, which is something I can’t really pull away from. Missxjackie Diary Entry
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