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

Kitty, though, was counting too much on her own guiltlessness, and the certainty of others believing in it; and she had more cause than she imagined for waking with a weight on her mind.

From Kitty Trenire by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

The manner in which it is received still further satisfying him of the other’s guiltlessness, he again begs to be forgiven for the suspicions he had entertained.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness,"—literally, next to godliness.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John