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

A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.”

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

Perhaps the peerless beings who lived in such palaces had returned to a state of guiltlessness, such as had existed before the serpent came.

From Samuel the Seeker by Sinclair, Upton

Job protests his guiltlessness, defies the dark power of fate, and even challenges divine justice, but God himself announces at the end that no man can grasp the essence of His plan for the world.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann