[f. next + -ITY. So mod.F. culpabilité, instead of OF. coupableté.] The quality of being culpable.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. II. 30. [It] may be said that God indeed is some cause of that, without culpability.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, 2 April an. 1779. Amongst various acts of culpability he mentioned evil-speaking.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 138. The degree of culpability depends on the presence or absence of intention.
