blamelessly

comparative more blamelessly · superlative most blamelessly

1. In a blameless manner.

   A pure, warm-hearted woman, blamelessly She liv'd her noble life ; her almsful soul No truce of giving knew ; she made the days Happier for all.

   1873, Godfrey Egremont, Poems and songs, page 45

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   Fanny's heart was not absolutely the only sadden'd one amongst them, as she soon began to acknowledge herself.—Julia was a sufferer too, though not quite so blamelessly.

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

   Municipal town and rural parish gradually made fresh threads of connection—gradually, as the old stocking gave way to the savings-bank, and the worship of the solar guinea became extinct; while squires and baronets, and even lords who had once lived blamelessly afar from the civic mind, gathered the faultiness of closer acquaintanceship.

   1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII)

   Synonyms: unblameably, unblamefully, cleanly, guiltlessly, innocently, irreprehensibly, purely, sinlessly