Guilt - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: guilt Page: 3Shame
A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety or of having done something which injures reputation or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal...
Self reproving
Reproving ones self reproving by consciousness of guilt...
Self reproved
Reproved by ones own conscience or ones own sense of guilt...
Inexcusably
With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification...
Righteous
Doing or according with that which is right yielding to all their due just equitable especially free from wrong guilt or sin holy as a righteous man or act a righteous retribution...
Remorse
The anguish like gnawing pain excited by a sense of guilt compunction of conscience for a crime committed or for the sins of ones past life...
Preeumlminent
Eminent above others prominent among those who are eminent superior in excellence surpassing or taking precedence of others rarely surpassing others in evil or in bad qualities as preeumlminent in guilt...
Penitent
Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses repentant contrite sincerely affected by a sense of guilt and resolved on amendment of life...
Ordeal
An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence by appealing to a supernatural decision once common in Europe and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes...
VerbarNolo contendere
A plea by the defendant in a criminal prosecution which without admitting guilt subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of guilty...
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