unguilty
English
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle English ungilti, ungulti, from Old English ungyltiġ; equivalent to un- + guilty.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editunguilty (comparative more unguilty, superlative most unguilty)
- Not guilty.
- 1544-1595, Edward Fairfax (1560-1635), Jerusalem Delivered[1]:
- XLVI "Tell me what will you do? why would you stain Your noble hands in our unguilty blood?
- 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse[2]:
- And further I imagined and sayd, Alasse what Judge is he that is so gentle or benigne, that will thinke that I am unguilty of the slaughter and murther of these three men.
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