Beguilt
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make guilty; cause to sin. transitive
"Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning."
- 2 Alternative form of begilt. alt-of, alternative
- 3 To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse. transitive
"[…] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king."
Example
More examples"Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English begilten, equivalent to be- + guilt.
Etymology 2
From begild.
More for "beguilt"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.