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[Eng. culpable; -ity.] The quality of being culpable; blamablene , culpable ne . "No blame attached to me: I am as free from culpability as any of you there."-C. Bronte: Jane Eyre , ch. xxix. cul-pa-ble, *coul-pa-ble, *cou-pa-ble, a. & s. [O. Fr. culpable ; Fr. coupable ; Sp. culpable : Ital. colpabile, from Lat. culpabilis , from culpa =afault.] A. As adjective : IMG:content-1526.png:[blocks in formation] *B. As subst.: A culprit. "Talked by those only who were the culpables ." -North: Life of Lord Guilford, ii. 247. Crabb thus discriminates between culpable and faulty : "We are culpable from the commi ion of one fault ; we are faulty from the number of faults ; culpable is a relative term; faulty is absolute; we are culpable with regard to a superior whose intentions we have not fulfilled; we are faulty whenever we commit any faults . A master pronounces his servant as culpable for not having attended to his commands; an indifferent person pronounces another as faulty whose faults have come under his notice. It is po ible, therefore, to be faulty without being culpable , but not vice vers a." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)