c 3 u 1 l 1 p 3 r 1 i 1 t 1
7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
originFrom Anglo-Norman cul. prit, contraction of culpable: prest (d'averrer nostre bille) 'guilty: ready (to prove our case)', words used by prosecutor in opening a trial, mistaken in English for an address to the defendant. See culpable. It may have been influenced by Latin culpa (“blame, fault”).
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