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   culprit

   /ˈkʌlprɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed: "the car's front nearside door had been smashed in but the culprits had fled"
   • ▪ the cause of a problem or defect: "low-level ozone pollution is the real culprit"

   Word Origin late 17th century (originally in the formula Culprit, how will you be tried?, said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner pleading not guilty): perhaps from a misinterpretation of the written abbreviation cul. prist for Anglo-Norman French Culpable: prest d'averrer notre bille ‘(You are) guilty: (We are) ready to prove our indictment’; in later use influenced by Latin culpa ‘fault, blame’.

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