[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/guilt/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) / guilt # guilt noun (guilt — uncountable) «guilt» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. The bad, uncomfortable feeling you have when you know you have done something wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#m1) 2. The fact of having done something wrong or broken a law (the court proved his guilt). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#m2) ### In the lessons In feelings lessons, guilt is a normal emotion that tells us to put things right: say sorry, fix a mistake. Too much guilt about things that were not your fault is not helpful — talk to someone. In stories guilt changes characters (they confess or make amends). In law and mystery stories, the detective proves someone's guilt. Phrases: feel guilt, a sense of guilt, guilty (adjective), guilt trip, guilty conscience. ### Examples - He felt guilt after he broke his sister's toy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x1) - Saying sorry helped her guilt go away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x2) - The detective found proof of the thief's guilt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x3) - Don't carry guilt for something that wasn't your fault. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x4) - I felt guilty because I forgot her birthday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x5) - The dog's guilty face showed it had eaten the cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x6) ### Note Homophone trap: «guilt» (feeling of doing wrong) and «gilt» (thin gold covering) sound the same. Adjective: guilty (I feel guilty). Opposite: innocence, innocent. Silent «u»: guilt. ## In Jewish tradition In the Prophets and Writings guilt is also what a person or people must bear for sin. Hosea says a divided heart will bear its guilt, Ezekiel says priests eat the guilt-offering, and Ezra says marrying foreign women increased Israel's guilt. **Interpretation.** The tradition says a person must confess, make good any loss, and then bring the offering. It teaches that wronging God or a neighbour needs real repair as well as feeling sorry. The priests' share of the guilt-offering is read as part of how the Temple service helped to bring forgiveness. ### Examples - It is a guilt-offering — he is certainly guilty before the LORD. (Torah LEV.5.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/#x1) - And this is the law of the guilt-offering: it is most holy. (Torah LEV.7.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/#x2) - And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a guilt-offering. (Torah LEV.7.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/#x3) - Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt; He will break down their altars, He will spoil their pillars. (Prophets HOS.10.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/#x4) - The meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they, even they, shall eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. (Prophets EZK.44.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/#x5) - And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them: 'Ye have broken faith, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. (Writings EZR.10.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/#x6) ### Note Homophone trap: «guilt» (feeling of doing wrong) and «gilt» (thin gold covering) sound the same. Adjective: guilty (I feel guilty). Opposite: innocence, innocent. Silent «u»: guilt. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «guilt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«guilt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/guilt.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «guilt» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/guilt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«guilt» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/guilt.html) on Mova free.