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Examples
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And they seyn zit, that and he had ben crucyfyed, that God had don azen his rightewisnesse, for to suffre Jesu Crist, that was innocent, to ben put upon the Cros, with outen gylt.
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And this chirche is fulle richely wroughte, and alle over gylt with inne.
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And this chirche is fulle richely wroughte, and alle over gylt with inne.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And they seyn zit, that and he had ben crucyfyed, that God had don azen his rightewisnesse, for to suffre Jesu Crist, that was innocent, to ben put upon the Cros, with outen gylt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said that the Priestes did offer Christe for the quicke and the dead, to haue remission of payne or gylt, were blasphemous fables, and daungerous deceits.
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It shal not greve a good man though gylt be amend {e}. rede on this ragment/and rule the theraft {e} r.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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God had don azen his rightewisnesse, for to suffre Jesu Crist, that was innocent, to ben put upon the Cros, with outen gylt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And this chirche is fulle richely wroughte, and alle over gylt with inne.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Yet nothing supports the suggestion that Old Engl. gylt, a noun recorded several hundred years prior to its German "equivalent," came to Britain from the continent, the more so because, as the
OUPblog 2008
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The earliest senses of Old Engl. gylt were "offence; crime; responsibility."
OUPblog 2008
missanthropist commented on the word gylt
Guilt, crime, sin. Old English
July 17, 2009