collective guilt
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcollectiveandguilt
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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk/kəˈlek.tɪv/us/kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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guilt
noun[U]
uk/ɡɪlt/us/ɡɪlt/
a feeling of worry or unhappiness that you have because you have done something wrong, such as causing harm to ...
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(Definition ofcollectiveandguiltfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcollective guilt
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Does not every person who picked up one of those documents and its appendices suffer the samecollectiveguilt?
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Legislation that is still in place today as a condemnation resulting from so-calledcollectiveguiltshould be a thing of the past.
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I have never believed incollectiveguiltin connection with a nation or a sport.
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Nor can we allow certain forces to revitalise the principle ofcollectiveguilt, which brings bad memories, so as to undermine the right to move freely.
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But what we are searching for here is leeway for arguments or claims we might wish to make to justify ourcollectiveguilt.
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Both displaced a sense ofcollectiveguiltand promoted a collective sense of victimisation.
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When twelfth-century theologians and canonists considered the question ofcollectiveguiltand punishment, they spoke in terms of one suffering for another's sin.
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Sometimes, victims of collective oppression cannot make their voices heard or understood unless they confront the issue as one ofcollectiveguilt.
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In practice to date, however, it seems thatcollectiveguiltand collective responsibility are being increasingly invoked in support of collective reparation.
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It is perhaps on the point of experiencingcollectiveguiltand acknowledging collective responsibility that we begin to experience appropriate moral maturity.
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Collectiveguiltand responsibility may, in fact, be moral claims made directly on social leaderships and governments or, indeed, religious institutions that have fostered, ideologically created, and perpetrated evil practices.
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Such developments need to be considered in the context of contemporary scholastic debate oncollectiveguiltand punishment which may have inspired or at least bolstered them.
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Pervasive participation in a society of the wholesale denial of certain members' rights could be one term or condition set down for a comprehensive description of validly placedcollectiveguilt.
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The resolution, which condemns the principle ofcollectiveguilt, was supported by members of the coalition and opposition parties.
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We must not tolerate discriminatory and exclusionist stereotypes about individual nations, we must battle withcollectiveguilt.
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That would not alter the fact that we are not consideringcollectiveguiltbut individual guilt.
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The principle ofcollectiveguiltseems now to be universally applicable to all who have anything to do with football.
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We have acollectiveguiltabout the losses involved in those two companies.
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I do not believe in thecollectiveguiltof football supporters.
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