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faultlessness|ˈfɔːlt-, ˈfɒltlɪsnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality or condition of being faultless. †a. Freedom from blame; blamelessness (obs.). b. Freedom from defect or blemish.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 429 The wrong..you doe vnto me, to thinke me..so childish, as not to perceiue your faithfull faultlesnesse. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. iii. (ed. 4) 292 Our ideas of excusableness or faultlessness. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets iv. 99 His excellence is by no means faultlessness. a1853Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. 197 Perfection is more than faultlessness. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 4 Venus..proud in the conviction of her faultlessness. |