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Gultier

Guilty \Guilt"y\, a. [Compar. Gultier; superl. Guiltiest.]

  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; as, guilty of murder.

    They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
    --Matt. xxvi. 66.

    Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.
    --Dryden.

  2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.

  3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson.

  4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.]
    --Dryden.