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

She stretched her hands toward him with that same gesture with which she had first declared her faith in his guiltlessness; the tears trembled in her voice and swam in her eyes.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

Nor did he content himself with declaring his guiltlessness Page 220of the crime imputed to him, but began in his turn to menace his captor and accuser, loading the latter with the bitterest upbraidings.

From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison

In the same way, a person without right to guiltlessness and recognition, will instinctively not surrender it with the emotion of resignation, but at most with despair or anger or rage.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf