Culpableness. World English Historical Dictionary

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In 4 coupabilnesse. [f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or fact of being culpable; culpability.

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c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 335. Coupabilnesse of synne.

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1648.  W. Mountague, Devout Ess., I. 145 (T.). My culpablenesse in those particulars.

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1694.  Kettlewell, Comp. Persecuted, 79. By any culpableness or unadvisedness of my own carriage.

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1851.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. i. § 40. 26. To show the culpableness … of our common modes of decoration by painted imitation of various woods or marbles.

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