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.

She would have given me a tacit assurance of her guiltlessness, or would have cried out at the injustice of suspicion.

From Vicky Van by Wells, Carolyn

The lists were to be open to any champion believing in the lady's guiltlessness, who should adventure his life in her defense.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various