gulty

Middle English

Adjective

gulty

1. guilty
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     But though myself be gulty in the synne,
     Yit can I make othere folk to twynne [...]

     But though myself be guilty of that sin,
     Yet I can make other folk to turn away [...]

References

• “gulty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.