unguilting
English
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editEtymology
editFrom unguilt, equivalent to unguilt + -ing.
Noun
editunguilting (uncountable)
- The process or act of removing one's guilt; pardoning.
- 1977, Osho, Yoga Sudha (Ma.), Deva Bhasha (Ma.), The beloved: songs of the Baul mystics:
- Real religion is always a process of unguilting; false religions are always a process of guilting.
- 2001, Margaret Mead, John Rickman, Geoffrey Gorer, Russian culture:
- It was felt that this behaviour could be considered 'typically' Russian, and it was decided that it would be useful to collect and analyse other examples of 'unguilting'.
- 2003, John Rickman, Pearl King, No ordinary psychoanalyst:
- [...] the ego does not find secret outlet for aggression by turning the aggression against itself in an orgy of self-punishment, nor does it allow an orgy of misdeeds to be followed by a severe process of "un-guilting" by penitences [...]
- 1977, Osho, Yoga Sudha (Ma.), Deva Bhasha (Ma.), The beloved: songs of the Baul mystics:
Verb
editunguilting
- present participle and gerund of unguilt