reproachlessadj.

1661 J. Evelyn tr. G. Naudé Instr. conc. Erecting of Libr. v. 60 They had permitted the defunct Seigneur Pinelli, in regard of his condition, his design, his laudable and irreproachless life [Fr. sa vie louable & sans reproche], and principally, the friendship which he ever testified towards the Republique, to have Copies of their Archives.]

1801 J. C. Mellish tr. F. Schiller Mary Stuart 200 A heart Devoid of guile, and a reproachless conduct.

1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xiii. 85 He appeals..to those who..could bear testimony to his reproachless fame.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 6/2 The unfortunate army..fought with reproachless courage to the very last.

1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Beautiful & Damned ii. ii. 185 Gloria insisted that any one invited to the gray house must be ‘good’, which, in the case of a girl, meant that she must be..simple and reproachless.

1958 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 22 May 4/1 Blue skies seemed to beam down upon all humanity. Trouble is, for every such reproachless day we have at least one of the other kind—the glowering type, with sullen clouds and nippy winds.

2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Feb. 24 He demanded a full inquiry into how this hideous situation had come to fall on his reproachless self.

1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. II. Diwarthrwyz, Reproachlessness.

1851 D. Masson in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 188 This very distinct piece of evidence in favour of Chatterton's punctual conduct..has been strained into a testimony to his moral reproachlessness.

1928 S. Shellabarger Chevalier Bayard vi. 122 Reproachlessness is relative not absolute.

1996 F. Wattleton Life on Line vii. 196 I would soon learn that attaining reproachlessness wasn't as easy as I might have assumed.