guiltlessness
- a word derived from guiltless.
Example Sentences
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In a certain sense, wealthy people could live with a justifiable guiltlessness in “Mad Men” New York.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2012
Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant.
From Time Magazine Archive
To our great relief the botanist was at last seized with sickness, and thereby proved his guiltlessness of a practical joke; three more miserable men I never saw for the space of several hours.
From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore
He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness,"—literally, next to godliness.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
The manner in which it is received still further satisfying him of the other’s guiltlessness, he again begs to be forgiven for the suspicions he had entertained.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne
