"guilt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "We Germans accept our historic and moral responsibility and the guilt incurred by Germans at that time," said Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany's development aid minister.
- This was the occasion of Chrysostom's treatise against the opponents of monasticism: in the first book he dwelt upon the guilt incurred by them; the second and third were addressed respectively to a pagan and a Christian father who were opposing the wish of their sons to embrace the monastic state.
- The guilt incurred in the violence of the hunt was reflected in sacred crimes, which through rituals of cleansing and expiation served to unify communities.
- From the relatives' point of view, it is usually an enormous relief to be able to label increasingly apparent peculiarities and emotional problems as 'illness' because illness is no one 's fault and families are, therefore, absolved from the guilt incurred by self-blame.
- The degree of guilt incurred by an omission is measured like that attaching to sins of commission, by the dignity of the virtue and the magnitude of the precept to which the omission is opposed as well as the amount of deliberation.
- Europe is moving ever further away from the essence of a just punishment as a response proportionate to the wrong done by the perpetrator and the guilt incurred.
- It was a revelation of the mystic guilt incurred by the personality that shuts itself up in solitude, and for this reason drops put of the comprehensive unity of mankind, and thus also out of the sphere of influence of moral law.
- "It helps eliminate some of the guilt so often incurred as a professional who is also a parent."
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