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blameless, a.|ˈbleɪmlɪs|
[f. blame + -less.]
†1. Exempt from censure or blame; free from charge or reproof; uncensured. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 306 Neyther is blamelees · þe bisshop ne þe chapleyne, For her eyther is endited. 1526Tindale Matt. xii. 5 The prestes in the temple breake the saboth daye and yet are blamlesse. [So 1611.]
2. Giving no cause for blame; undeserving of reproach; faultless, guiltless.
1535Coverdale Titus i. 6 Yf eny be blamelesse, the huszbande of one wife..A Bisshoppe must be blamelesse. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 124 The blamelesse behaviour of the Christians. 1851Dixon W. Penn xxviii. (1872) 262 John Hough, a man of blameless life. 1859Tennyson Merlin & V. 162 The blameless King.
b. Const. of.
1611Bible Josh. ii. 17 Wee will bee blamelesse of this thine oath. 1747Mallet Amynt. & Theod. i. 9 Blameless still of arts That polish to deprave.
†3. Not imputing or containing blame. Obs.
1595Spenser Col. Clout 749 Blame is..more blamelesse generall, Then that which private errours doth pursew. |