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adjective

Guiltless adj.

Free from guilt; innocent. "The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."

Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with). "Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed."

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Etymology of 'Guiltless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Guiltless" Quotes from Famous Books

... that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... New England is guiltless of the policy of retarding Western population, and of all envy and jealousy of the growth of the new States. Whatever there be of that policy in the country, no part of it is hers. If it has a local habitation, the honorable member has probably seen by this time where to look for it; ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... before heaven that I was guiltless of it," she cried out, giving up her cause at once. "It was your wicked ...

— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray

... I'm impressed with it. She'll carry the house by storm. I've never seen anything like it; and I'm glad to find that Mrs. Maxwell feels just as I do about it." Maxwell looked at his wife, who returned his glance with a guiltless eye. "I was afraid she might feel the loss of things that certainly are lost in it. I don't say that Miss Havisham's Salome, superb as it is, is your Salome—or Mrs. Maxwell's. I've always fancied that Mrs. Maxwell had a great deal to do with that character, and—I don't know why—I've ...

— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... an annoyance like a musical-box that will not leave off tinkling out the same tune. He bent his head lower as he sat, aware, with a misery of shame, that tears were burning perilously near his eye-lids. Life was sordid, and his position, over which he had not been guiltless of sometimes dreaming as romantic, held nothing but mortification ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

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