forguilt in English

Forms: forguilts [present, singular, third-person], forguilting [participle, present], forguilted [participle, past], forguilted [past], forgilt [alternative] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: From Middle English forgilten, forgulten (“to render guilty, forfeit by guilt”), from Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”), equivalent to for- + guilt. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|forgilten}} Middle English forgilten, {{inh|en|ang|forgyltan||to sin, be or become guilty}} Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”), {{prefix|en|for|guilt}} for- + guilt Head templates: {{en-verb}} forguilt (third-person singular simple present forguilts, present participle forguilting, simple past and past participle forguilted)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forgilten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forgilten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "forgyltan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to sin, be or become guilty"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "guilt"
      },
      "expansion": "for- + guilt",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forgilten, forgulten (“to render guilty, forfeit by guilt”), from Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”), equivalent to for- + guilt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forguilts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forguilting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forguilted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forguilted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forgilt",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forguilt (third-person singular simple present forguilts, present participle forguilting, simple past and past participle forguilted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 34 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 32 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 27 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 21 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring into a state of guilt; make guilty."
      ],
      "id": "en-forguilt-en-verb-Cf7PcbdS",
      "links": [
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ],
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To bring into a state of guilt; make guilty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 34 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 32 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To forfeit by guilty conduct; bring into by guilt."
      ],
      "id": "en-forguilt-en-verb-z8kLzpby",
      "links": [
        [
          "forfeit",
          "forfeit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To forfeit by guilty conduct; bring into by guilt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 34 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 32 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be guilty."
      ],
      "id": "en-forguilt-en-verb-vD-K21Ck",
      "links": [
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, intransitive) To be guilty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "forguilt"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms prefixed with for-",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forgilten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forgilten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "forgyltan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to sin, be or become guilty"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "guilt"
      },
      "expansion": "for- + guilt",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forgilten, forgulten (“to render guilty, forfeit by guilt”), from Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”), equivalent to for- + guilt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forguilts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forguilting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forguilted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forguilted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forgilt",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forguilt (third-person singular simple present forguilts, present participle forguilting, simple past and past participle forguilted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring into a state of guilt; make guilty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ],
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To bring into a state of guilt; make guilty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To forfeit by guilty conduct; bring into by guilt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forfeit",
          "forfeit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To forfeit by guilty conduct; bring into by guilt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be guilty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, intransitive) To be guilty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "forguilt"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"forguilt" meaning in English

Verb