(v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.
(v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
(3) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
(4) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
(5) Mother's guilt Fifty years on, the scars have not properly healed for Bach, now 68.
(6) Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future.
(7) But Ruby Tweedie, another local resident, said: "There have been so many doubts about his guilt that it's only fair that the man, who has only a few months to live, should be shown mercy."
(8) Still others may feel pain, anger, and guilt for years after the death.
(9) A request for a pardon would require an admission of guilt, which the women have said they will not give.
(10) The pseudo-memories coupled with influence from authority figures convinced him of his guilt for 6 months.
(11) Brighter children had a higher ideal self-image, greater self-image disparity, and marginally more guilt than children of average intellectual abilities.
(12) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
(13) Perceived high amounts of calories or fat triggered stronger feelings of guilt and danger for restrained control subjects and patients (especially bulimic patients) as compared with unrestrained control subjects.
(14) Libya agreed to pay billions of dollars in compensation to families of the victims because of demands from the UN, not because it admitted guilt over the worst act of terrorism in British history.
(15) This study was designed to determine whether normal control subjects (n = 17) and depressed outpatients (n = 72) differed with respect to the extent and conditions under which they reported dysfunctional guilt.
(16) Feelings of guilt were related significantly to disaffected patterns such as dogmatism (p less than .001), hostility (p less than .001), and aggression (p less than .05), which suggests a turning inward of feelings of anger and disappointment in addition to their outward expression.
(17) Stories poured in, full of anger, guilt, powerlessness and loss, ones of encouragement, optimism and advice, and they are still coming.
(18) I’m worried this could create a culture of fear and guilt.
(19) ; psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, guilt, anger, hostility, frustration, isolation, and a diminished sense of self-esteem; visualization for health improvement; and, dealing with death anxiety and other related issues.
(20) Symptoms of guilt, loss of concentration and memory were significantly more in urban patients whereas gastrointestinal somatic symptoms were significantly higher in rural subjects.
Imputation
Definition:
() The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
() Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
() A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
() Opinion; intimation; hint.
Example Sentences:
(1) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
(2) the ISR can be inhibited by direct neural imput to the pancreas, and this inhibition is mediated by alpha-adrenergic receptors.
(3) In the absence of clinically noticeable symptoms or neurologic signs of central type, more than 65% of the patients showed an increase of slow activities together with a reduction of the alpha activity presumably imputable only to the respiratory pathology.
(4) The author gives a critical account of the development of views regarding the imputability of sexual delinquents and the possibility of protective therapy in sexual deviations.
(5) Sicca syndromes with sometimes lymphocytic infiltrate similar to those of Sjögren's syndrome were occasionally imputed to drug reactions.
(6) While missing data has been handled by a conservative imputation rule, the fact that so many persons are unable to provide an answer to this key question casts doubt on the accuracy of the answers that were given.
(7) Tugendhat described the "imputation" from the NME magazine articles as a "very serious one".
(8) It is argued that this arrangement of afferent imput may afford a convergence of limbic and sensory information in area PG and that this may subserve a significant function in the process of sensory attention.
(9) I argue by illustration that, first of all, it does make good sense to see the option to be lesbian as genuine for women in a fairly common sort of circumstance; that recognizing the genuineness of this option, however, does not impute to such women major control over their lives; that choosing to be lesbian may actually narrow rather than expand one's present options; and that nevertheless it is important to acknowledge such choices for their potentialities, in community, to change the meaning of "lesbian" in liberatory ways.
(10) Increase in cardiac output during cold air (1 degree C) exposure is thus only imputed to the higher heart rate partly due to hypersecretion of catecholamines.
(11) A review of the legal aspects recalls the principles of imputability in cases of cancer and trauma.
(12) These two imputs overlap in the central region of the nucleus.
(13) Yet their anxieties, fears, affects, the nature of their information-seeking and goal-setting, their efforts to deal with reality by controlling imput, and the ways in which they seek help and socialize, are all themes common among other groups of patients experiencing stress as the result of sudden illness or injury.
(14) We find that the method rarely imputes trial-to-trial variation to data sets that have an unchanging signal, while it almost always produces less error than averaging when estimating a varying signal.
(15) NDI is a well recognized complication of primary hyperparathyroidism, generally imputed to hypercalcemia, and promptly reversible after correcting it.
(16) The significance of these sources of afferent imputs to the lateral cerebellar nucleus is discussed.
(17) The purpose of this report is to document the procedures used in the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to select the sample, weight the data to produce national estimates, impute missing data, and estimate sampling errors.
(18) Using imputability scales made it possible to reduce the cause-effect relationship in 26 p. 100 of the cases.
(19) CAP combination chemotherapy was well tolerated without nephrotoxicity, which can be imputed to the strong saline hydration given.
(20) Imputability to a post-radiology bilateral external carotid thrombosis is evoked, where the diagnosis of tumoral recurrence and Horton's disease have been ruled out.