Unguilt

From - + guilt.

Full definition of unguilt

Verb

1. (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.

Derived terms

• unguilting
• unguiltness

Noun

1. 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.

From - + guilt("gilt").

Adjective

1. 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.