BLAMELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blameless mean? 

• BLAMELESS (adjective)
  The adjective BLAMELESS has 1 sense:

1. free of guilt; not subject to blame

  Familiarity information: BLAMELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAMELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free of guilt; not subject to blame

Synonyms:

blameless; inculpable; irreproachable; unimpeachable

Context example:

an unimpeachable reputation

Similar:

clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)

Derivation:

blamelessness (a state of innocence)

 Context examples 

Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The black mare was blameless; they were right who had named Mrs. Churchill as the cause.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Compared with me, all the rest were blameless.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life—if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer—if ever I wished a righteous wish,—I am rewarded now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So that I hope I may with justice pronounce myself an author perfectly blameless; against whom the tribes of Answerers, Considerers, Observers, Reflectors, Detectors, Remarkers, will never be able to find matter for exercising their talents.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into a sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing yet avoided.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her when I felt my intentions were strictly honourable, and my feelings blameless.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Again she read on; but every line proved more clearly that the affair, which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to render Mr. Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)