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Middle English
Adjective
gilty
- guilty
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 688-689:
For Catoun seith, that he that gilty is
Demeth al thing be spoke of him, y-wis.- For Cato says that he who is guilty
Believes every thing is spoken about him, indeed.