misguilt
English
editAlternative forms
edit- misgilt (obsolete)
Etymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmisguilt (uncountable)
- Offense; misdeed; crime; fault.
- 1899, The Cooper craft:
- If a burgess be attached out of the burgh for debt, or for any misguilt, his neighbours shall pass to bail him on their own proper dispense, provided he be taken within the sheriffdom; […]
- 1899, The Cooper craft:
Verb
editmisguilt (third-person singular simple present misguilts, present participle misguilting, simple past and past participle misguilted)
- (intransitive) To do wrong.