Meaning of BLAMELESS
Pronunciation: | | 'bleymlis
|
| Sponsored Links: | |
|
|
WordNet Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | [adj] free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation" |
|
| Synonyms: | | clean-handed, guiltless, inculpable, innocent, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
|
|
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | \Blame"less\, a.
Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; --
sometimes followed by of.
A bishop then must be blameless. --1 Tim. iii.
2.
Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave.
--Mallet.
We will be blameless of this thine oath. --Josh. ii.
17.
Syn: Irreproachable; sinless; unblemished; inculpable.
Usage: {Blameless}, {Spotless}, {Faultless}, {Stainless}. We
speak of a thing as blameless when it is free from
blame, or the just imputation of fault; as, a
blameless life or character. The others are stronger.
We speak of a thing as faultless, stainless, or
spotless, only when we mean that it is absolutely
without fault or blemish; as, a spotless or stainless
reputation; a faultless course of conduct. The last
three words apply only to the general character, while
blameless may be used in reverence to particular
points; as, in this transaction he was wholly
blameless. We also apply faultless to personal
appearance; as, a faultless figure; which can not be
done in respect to any of the other words.
|
|
Thesaurus Terms |
|
| Related Terms: | | angelic, childlike, Christian, clean, clear, creditable, decent, dovelike, erect, estimable, ethical, exemplary, fair, faultless, full of integrity, good, guiltless, highly respectable, high-minded, high-principled, honest, honorable, immaculate, in the clear, incorrupt, inculpable, innocent, inviolate, irreprehensible, irreproachable, just, lamblike, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lily-white, manly, moral, noble, not guilty, offenseless, prelapsarian, principled, pristine, pure, reproachless, reputable, respectable, right, righteous, right-minded, sans reproche, sinless, spotless, stainless, sterling, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, truehearted, true-souled, true-spirited, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfallen, unimpeachable, unlapsed, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, untouched by evil, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, with clean hands, without reproach, worthy, yeomanly |
|
|
|
|