BLAMELESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blamelessness mean? 

• BLAMELESSNESS (noun)
  The noun BLAMELESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. a state of innocence

  Familiarity information: BLAMELESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAMELESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of innocence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

blamelessness; guiltlessness; inculpability; inculpableness

Hypernyms ("blamelessness" is a kind of...):

innocence (a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense)

Derivation:

blameless (free of guilt; not subject to blame)

 Context examples 

Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow that Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his blamelessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance—an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways—seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust—anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits; that among his own connections he was esteemed and valued—that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley, was incomprehensible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)