Noun: giltines
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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& 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. [c. 1480 [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:]
Nouns inflected like giltines
contemplaunce,
giltines,
wordes of tocome,
busihead,
meritote,
aqua vite,
paradys,
Pendragon,
smokynge,
medkniche,
noblesse,
smattrynge,
fidelite,
tolysnysse,
unmanhood,
chierte,
cranage,
cronyng,
tolætenysse,
capcioun, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From gilty + -nesse.
Verbs referencing "giltines"
English Nouns
guiltiness.
Translations