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absolve from guilt

To consider innocent, clear of all suspicion, or pardon from any cause of guilt. The knights of the crusades committed many atrocities in their campaign, but they were absolved from guilt by the heads of the church.

absolved from guilt

Considered innocent, cleared of all suspicion, or pardoned from any cause of guilt. The knights of the crusades committed many atrocities in their campaign, but they were regarded as absolved from guilt because of their religious patronage.

guilt complex

A very strong and persistent feeling of guilt regarding something or some event. John developed a guilt complex after forcing his brother to move out.

guilt trip

1. noun A deep feeling of guilt or remorse. I'm having a guilt trip for not being able to attend my sister's wedding.

2. verb To make others feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate them. Kelly's parents were always trying to guilt trip her for not giving them grandchildren. You can't guilt trip me into donating money, I give enough to charity already.

send (one) on a guilt trip

To make one feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate. Kelly's parents were always trying to send her on a guilt trip for not giving them grandchildren. These charity commercials are really sending me on a guilt trip. I guess that's a sign I should donate.

put a guilt trip on (one)

To make one feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate. Kelly's parents were always trying to put a guilt trip on her for not giving them grandchildren. These charity commercials are really putting a guilt trip on me. I guess that's a sign I should donate.

lay a guilt trip on (one)

To make one feel guilty, especially in an attempt to manipulate. Kelly's parents were always trying to lay a guilt trip on her for not giving them grandchildren. These charity commercials are really laying a guilt trip on me. I guess that's a sign I should donate.

a ˈguilt trip

(informal) things you say to somebody in order to make them feel guilty about something: Don’t lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.

lay a (heavy) trip on someone

1. tv. to criticize someone. There’s no need to lay a trip on me. I agree with you.

2. tv. to confuse or astonish someone. After he laid a heavy trip on me about how the company is almost broke, I cleaned out my desk and left.

3. and lay a guilt trip on someone tv. to attempt to make someone feel very guilty. Why do you have to lay a guilt trip on me? Why don’t you go to a shrink? Keep your problems to yourself. Don’t lay a trip on me!

lay a guilt trip on someone

verb

See lay a heavy trip on someone

lay a guilt trip on

To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty.

See also: guilt, lay, on, trip

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Given guilt s prevalence in our daily lives, he added the findings could have broader implications by illuminating the silver lining of negative emotions.

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Fathers also said family-related guilt was associated with time away from their wives and children, while mothers' guilt was associated with time away from their children.

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For Nietzsche, to follow conscience into guilt is to accept the values of the they, or as he put it, the herd; for Heidegger, to follow conscience into guilt is an antidote to our tranquilized immersion in the they.

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Guilt is the inner fruit of sin, an awareness of our transgression.

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Previous research has linked the precuneus with the processing of self-attribution, responsibility, causal reasoning, and "moral transgression" guilt.

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That the particular connection of identifying with guilt and self-righteousness we find in Antigone and many of her more recent brothers and sisters is not without alternative can easily be seen when we contrast it to the discourse on guilt that we find in other traditions such as Indian Hinduism--and related arguments could be made for certain strains of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism.

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They added that from an embodied cognition framework, they predicted that recalling personal unethical acts would imbue feelings of guilt that would be embodied as greater sensations of weight.

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It was predicted that the shame and guilt scales of TOSCA-3C would demonstrate different patterns of intercorrelations and correlations with the other measurements.

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However guilt doesn't evaporate; it looms over us like a contaminated poisonous fume that most people retain in their surrounding rather than finding a window to release it.

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From this perspective, people would necessarily feel shame or guilt in relation to events that triggered these emotions.

Development of instruments to assess shame and guilt in adolescents: empirical differences between the constructs/Elaboracao de instrumentos para aferir vergonha e culpa em adolescentes: diferencas empiricas entre os construtos/Elaboracion de instrumentos para evaluar la verguenza y la culpa en los adolescentes: diferencias empiricas entre los constructos

Thiskind of low-level, everyday guilt poses apuzzle.

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This study investigated whether guilt associated with unwanted intrusive thoughts characterized the elevated obsessionality previously reported in highly religious individuals.

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Dietary and lifestyle disorders have suddenly accelerated an unnatural feeling of guilt around food.

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that guilt proneness--the anticipation of guilty or negative feelings before a moral transgression is committed--correlates with ethical behavior.

Good without guilt?

Thus, when clinical psychologists deal with clients who struggle with religiously related experiences such as sin and guilt, they are not only confronted with selecting the most fitting treatment for the presenting problem but also with the need to understand the religious and cultural issues that may contribute to their clients' experiences.