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culpability

noun
cul·​pa·​bil·​i·​ty | \ ˌkəl-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē How to pronounce culpability (audio) \

Definition of culpability

: responsibility for wrongdoing or failure : the quality or state of being culpable moral/legal/criminal culpability He refuses to acknowledge his own culpability. Culpability for our failure to reduce petroleum imports falls across the political spectrum.— Gregg Easterbrook

First Known Use of culpability

1652, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of culpability was in 1652

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