giltines

Middle English

Etymology

From gilty +‎ -nesse.

Noun

giltines

1. guiltiness
   • c. 1375, “Thomas”, in Legends of the Saints in the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century; Edited from the Unique Manuscript in the University Library, Cambridge with Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index by W[illiam] M[usham] Metcalfe, D.D., volumes I (Introduction and Text), Edinburgh, London: Printed for the [Scottish Text] Society by William Blackwood and Sons, published 1896, pages 133–134, lines 166–174:

     & til ȝou I say þat ruttinge com of þe flesch lechery, þat oysit is al commonly; of rottinge pollucione Is generit, in oure flesche þar done; & of pollucionê of flesche grovis, as ve vat, giltiness; & of giltines þe schame Is generit, & of It þe blame.

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Descendants

• English: guiltiness