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guiltlessness|ˈgɪltlɪsnɪs|
[f. guiltless a. + -ness.]
The condition, quality, or state of being guiltless; innocence.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. iv. 2 If at any tyme our giltlessenesse appeere not before the world. 1650Hobbes De Corp. Pol. 23 When Justice is taken for Guiltlesnesse, the Actions are just, and yet not alwayes the Man. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens (1713) II. 30 If the Declaration of a Grand Jury..cannot convince the World of the guiltlessness of any Man, what can? 1813Sir S. Romilly Speech Parl. 5 Mar., The guiltlessness of the Princess of Wales was established. 1877C. M. Yonge Cameos III. vii. 58 These preposterous charges almost show the real guiltlessness of the veteran on whom national hatred had fixed. |