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unguilt

Verb

unguilt (unguilts, present participle unguilting; past and past participle unguilted)

(transitive) To remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.
- 1986, Edward Haymes, Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, Midwest Modern Language Association, The Dark figure in medieval German and Germanic literature:
  [...] admits his guilt and then finds relatives who want to "unguilt" him, [...]
- 2006, Libby Sternberg, Finding the Forger:
  But I felt unguilted as soon as I did it. It made the whole incident feel normal, run-of-the-mill.
- 2009, David Janssen, Edward Whitelock, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music - Page 72:
  No sin goes unpunished here, no joy unguilted.

Noun

unguilt (uncountable)

Guiltlessness; innocence.
- 1853, Francis Lieber, On civil liberty and self-government - Page 21:
  The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt, innocence.
- 1976, Rochelle Heller Stone, Bolesław Leśmian: The Poet and His Poetry:
  ("I love you for the unguilt of your madness . . .")
- 2015, Micah Blacklight, Chapter Twenty-One: Songhai:
  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.

Adjective

unguilt

Not gilt or gilded.
- 1696, 1903, The Connoisseur: Volume 5 - Page 204:
  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.

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