Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Free of guilt; innocent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from guilt; innocent; blameless.
- Free from the presence or experience (of); in a humorous sense, not subject to the imputation (of).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from guilt; innocent.
- adjective Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Free from
guilt ;innocent . - adjective Without
experience ortrial ;unacquainted (with).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free from evil or guilt
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, you may ask me why I suspect other nations of designs against Great Britain, and hold Great Britain guiltless of designs against other nations.
War and Empire 1914
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To simply blame Israel for this and leave Hamas guiltless is shortsighted and ignorant.
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They cannot have wished for a victorious rewarding war, blame everyone else for their defeat, and remain guiltless.
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They cannot have wished for a victorious rewarding war, blame everyone else for their defeat, and remain guiltless.
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This is the often dreamed about "guiltless" state where the accountant of our brains has gone to sleep.
Srinivasan Pillay: New Ways to Think About Guilt: Inside the Human Brain 2009
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Savages, Mr. Hartland says in a censure of my theory, are "guiltless" of
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878
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For example, the now-defunct New Zealand launch site included virtual men with whom you could have "guiltless" virtual affairs: launch website imagines the chocolate bar as a tribute to Womanhood in all its "shimmery" glory:
the Hathor Legacy 2009
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A bishop, Paul points out, must be "above reproach" (anepílimptos, 1Ti 3: 1) literally meaning having a solid grasp-on the Christian walk, we presume-and "guiltless," (Tt 1: 7) meaning nothing to hide.
SmuloSpace: Thinking. Listening. Provoking. Discussing. 2008
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At the same time I desire one part pt the dispute betwixt us may be finished by an answer to these questions: Is not calling a guiltless man an impudent slanderer, pdumny, and quite a different revenge than a slight joke? anc) has not Mr. Warburton done that in the note in question?
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To me- this kind of guiltless assertion of one’s own soul, this demand to control one’s own life- that’s the heart of it, that’s what turns my head to know that someone really means ‘liberty’.
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