Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being blameless; innocence; purity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.
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- noun The characteristic of being
blameless .
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- noun a state of innocence
Etymologies
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Examples
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To say no more about Arthur's technical "blamelessness," he has, by the coming of Lancelot, ceased to be altogether heroic.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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It fosters an equanimity that results in "blamelessness," feeling comfortable in any setting or with any group without the need to find fault or blame.
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"blamelessness" which grew more trying still in Tennyson's King.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Do not kill”; for this is the childlike blamelessness which is proposed to us, if we would enter the kingdom of heaven.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842
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I suffer two immediate and competing reactions: the first is a profound fear, the second a strong sense of blamelessness.
Tim Dowling: A writer wronged Tim Dowling 2010
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Do they have warm feelings for people so confident in their blamelessness that they brag about "never" having behaved "inappropriately" with "anyone" ever?
Herman Cain and the third-person presser | Ana Marie Cox 2011
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It was the blamelessness of Christ that made his execution into murder.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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It was the blamelessness of Christ that made his execution into murder.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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It was the blamelessness of Christ that made his execution into murder.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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"Only at the cost of self-deception," he wrote, can observant Christians preserve a facade of "private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world."
Belief In Action Joseph Loconte 2010
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