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Word Meanings - CRIMINALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. This is by no means the only criterion of criminality. Blackstone.

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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.
  • OFFENSELESS
    Unoffending; inoffensive.
  • CRIMINALITY
    The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. This is by no means the only criterion of criminality. Blackstone.
  • OFFENSEFUL
    Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
  • GUILTILY
    In a guilty manner.
  • CRIME
    which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
  • CRIMELESS
    Free from crime; innocent. 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
  • OFFENSE; OFFENCE
    1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Rom. iv. 25. I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men,
  • DELINQUENCY
    Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors. Motley.
  • CULPABILITY
    The state of being culpable.
  • CRIMEFUL
    Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. Shak.
  • GUILTYLIKE
    Guiltily. Shak.
  • FALSICRIMEN
    The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
  • INGUILTY
    Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
  • 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.
  • SCRIMER
    A fencing master. Shak.

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