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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

과실 책임

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gwasil chaegim

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Culpability/ˌʌl.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 이번 사고에 대한 법적 책임을 부인했다."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Responsibility for a fault or wrong; blameworthiness.

    "Both companies share culpability for the environmental disaster."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin culpabilitas, stemming from classical Latin culpabilis (blameworthy) and culpa (fault or blame). It entered Middle English through legal and moral philosophical discourse in the late medieval period to designate accountability for wrongdoing.

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