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tetlatlacolli.

Headword: 
tetlatlacolli.
Principal English Translation: 

guilt (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlatlaculli
Attestations from sources in English: 

aun injc uel qujneltiliaia in tlatoanj in teneteilhujl anoço tetlatlacul = And in order that the ruler might verify one's accusations and guilt (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 54.

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