unguilt

present singular third person unguilts · participle present unguilting · participle past unguilted · past unguilted

1. transitiveTo remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.

   No sin goes unpunished here, no joy unguilted.

   2009, David Janssen, Edward Whitelock, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music - Page 72

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   [...] admits his guilt and then finds relatives who want to "unguilt" him, [...]

   1986, Edward Haymes, Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, Midwest Modern Language Association, The Dark figure in medieval German and Germanic literature

   But I felt unguilted as soon as I did it. It made the whole incident feel normal, run-of-the-mill.

   2006, Libby Sternberg, Finding the Forger

1. uncountableGuiltlessness; innocence.

   ("I love you for the unguilt of your madness . . .")

   1976, Rochelle Heller Stone, Bolesław Leśmian: The Poet and His Poetry

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   The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt, innocence.

   1853, Francis Lieber, On civil liberty and self-government - Page 21

   When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration.

   2015, Micah Blacklight, Chapter Twenty-One: Songhai

   Synonyms: innocency, blamelessness, cleanness, inculpability, innocence, innocency, guiltlessness

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of ungilt (“not gilded”)

   Two silver monteths, two large fflaggons, two large tankards, two silver salvers, a voyder and a knyfe, two silver salts, two guilt bolls of the like size, one other boll, three silver bolls, in all 24 pieces guilt and unguilt.

   1696, The Connoisseur, volume 5, published 1903, page 204