guiltlessness
Example Sentences
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In a certain sense, wealthy people could live with a justifiable guiltlessness in “Mad Men” New York.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2012
Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant.
From Time Magazine Archive
I burned to say if but one word by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness.
From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Carl Van Vechten
He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness,"—literally, next to godliness.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Another link in the chain has yet to be added; and when it shall come forth, how will it be if it should establish the guiltlessness of the prisoner too late?
From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
