† unculpableadj.
Obsolete.
Not culpable or blameworthy; free from fault or blame.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [adjective] > blameless
unfakenOE
lastlessc1225
unculpable1382
plightlessa1400
freelessc1400
unblamed14..
inculpablea1492
blameless1535
unblameful1570
witeless1578
inculpate1612
amomous1683
sans reprochea1845
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xxxii. 22 Thanne ȝe shulen be vnculpable anentis God, and anentis Irael.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 355/1 For then is the fayth of the church in that point infallyble, or at ye lest vnculpable.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. vii. 139 Which the Iewes obseruing as yet vnwritten,..are notwithstanding in that respect vnculpable.
1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. vii. §11 We vpon inuincible or vnculpable ignorance, did not apprehend it for such.
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 235 It behooves us..not to suffer wickednesse to escape unculpable.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xii. 55 You shall set over me, instead of my poor obliging, but really unculpable Hannah, your Betty Barnes.
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