innocence
The police have no definitive proof of her guilt.警察并未掌握她犯罪的确凿证据。
The prosecution has to establish his guilt beyond any reasonable doubt.
A jury should not interpret the silence of a defendant as a sign of guilt.陪审团不应该将被告的沉默看作是有罪的表示。
Newly-discovered documents cast doubt on the guilt of the two men.新近发现的文件使人们对这两名男子是否有罪产生了疑问。
With so little evidence to prove her guilt, few people thought she should be hanged for murder.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Guilty
admission of guilt
answerable
blameworthy
blood
convict
convicted
conviction
culpable
guiltiness
guilty
guilty as chargedidiom
have (someone's) blood on your handsidiom
reconvict
reconviction
responsible
suspect

guilt | American Dictionary

guilt
noun[ U ]
us/ɡɪlt/
the fact or state of having done something wrong or committed a crime:
In the US, people accused of a crime are presumed to be innocent until their guilt is proven.
Guilt is also a feeling of anxiety or unhappiness that you have done something immoral or wrong, such as causing harm to another person:
She was tormented by feelings of guilt after putting her mother in a nursing home.

Examples of guilt

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I think that individuals can indeed make reparation sufficient for dealing with guilt in these sorts of circumstances.
On arriving home many experienced feelings of guilt over separation from, and neglect of, family and friends, and there were many other potential hazards.
Either of these glosses hence undermines the rationale for insisting on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The humanists, on the other hand, were more concerned with the preservation of the commonwealth than with the questions of guilt and innocence.
The charge against the king was little more than a formality, and the business of proving his guilt or innocence was really just a pretext.
In this case, sin would seem to be unlike (total) guilt.
One notices, first, that the nature (and thereby the extent) of human guilt appears to have been misunderstood.
The fact that one cannot accomplish a ' best ' does not absolve one of guilt if one could do far better than one has done.
One-third of respondents in the present study admitted to having survival guilt.
The beliefs were assessed retrospectively from audiotapes of exposure sessions, and potentially relevant beliefs about safety, guilt, and shame were not reported.
In principle, the absolute probability of guilt is ir relevant.
The pressure is greater for innocence than guilt.
The relationship of the second teacher was characterized by guilt.
Earlier theoreticians of antecedent responsibility emphasized guilt, shame, and fear resulting from human destructiveness.
Taking responsibility for an error may increase already existing feelings of remorse, guilt, and inadequacy.
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Collocations withguilt

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admission of guilt
An apology is necessary for restoring harmonious relations, not admissionofguilt.
burden of guilt
The general stigma against obesity, which can lead to negative and prejudicial attitudes against obese people, often results in major personal suffering and a burdenofguilt.
collective guilt
But what we are searching for here is leeway for arguments or claims we might wish to make to justify our collectiveguilt.
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