Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a blameless manner; without fault or crime; innocently.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a blameless manner.

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  • adverb In a blameless manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an irreproachable and blameless manner

Etymologies

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blameless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • They walked in all blamelessly, that is, sincerely with upright hearts.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • -- the confidence of _my_ God still, even in His recognised judgments trusted in as merciful: the history of many an unrecorded Job; a parent bereaved of his fair dear children; an aged merchant beggared by the roguery of others, and his very name blamelessly dishonoured; the extremity of a martyr's sufferings; or some hunted soul's temptation.

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • -- the confidence of _my_ God still, even in His recognised judgments trusted in as merciful: the history of many an unrecorded Job; a parent bereaved of his fair dear children; an aged merchant beggared by the roguery of others, and his very name blamelessly dishonoured; the extremity of a martyr's sufferings; or some hunted soul's temptation.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • As long as your heart is in the effort, as long as you desire to "walk blamelessly" with your God, you're there.

    Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Who Does God Like To Hang Out With? Psalm 15 Sheds Some Light Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

  • As long as your heart is in the effort, as long as you desire to "walk blamelessly" with your God, you're there.

    Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Who Does God Like To Hang Out With? Psalm 15 Sheds Some Light Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

  • Rupert was a proto-Cameroonian with smart casual clothes and an unlined, round, never-ageing face, living a blamelessly middle England life in Nutwood with an irreproachable family and friends.

    Rupert Bear turns 90 – but it's just another day at the office Maev Kennedy 2010

  • He smiled blamelessly, his treacherous heart fulfilled at last.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • The Arsenal forward Eduardo chased into the area after a ball that was rushing away from him, tripped over a blade of grass and collapsed like a stricken fawn beneath the blamelessly splayed hands of Boruc, the Celtic goalie.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • The Arsenal forward Eduardo chased into the area after a ball that was rushing away from him, tripped over a blade of grass and collapsed like a stricken fawn beneath the blamelessly splayed hands of Boruc, the Celtic goalie.

    The art of deception 2009

  • The Arsenal forward Eduardo chased into the area after a ball that was rushing away from him, tripped over a blade of grass and collapsed like a stricken fawn beneath the blamelessly splayed hands of Boruc, the Celtic goalie.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

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