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inculpability
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blamelessness |
| Synonyms: | chastity, clean hands, clear conscience, guiltlessness, immaculateness, impeccability, incorruptibility, incorruption, inculpability, probity, purity, righteousness, sinlessness, stainlessness, uprightness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | badness, blame, corruption, evil, guilt, sin |
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| Concept: | Innocence. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
innocence; guiltlessness; incorruption, impeccability., clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]., innocent, lamb, dove.
-verbs
be innocent; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Horace]., acquit; exculpate (vindicate).
-adjectives
innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian (artless)., inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial., harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]., virtuous; unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached.
-adverbs
innocently; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience.
-phrases
murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | guilt |
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