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GUILTLESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does guiltlessness mean?
• GUILTLESSNESS (noun)
The noun GUILTLESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of innocence
Familiarity information: GUILTLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of innocence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
blamelessness; guiltlessness; inculpability; inculpableness
Hypernyms ("guiltlessness" is a kind of...):
innocence (a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense)
Derivation:
guiltless (free from evil or guilt)
Context examples
A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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