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形容詞

blameless (comparative more blameless, superlative most blameless)

1. Free from blame; without fault; innocent.

   Synonyms: blameless, guiltless, unblameable, sackless; see also Thesaurus:innocent

   • 2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:

     And while American Jews do not hold the left blameless, in the age of Trump, we’re a lot more concerned about right-wing anti-Semitism.

2. Not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof.

   Synonyms: nonblameworthy, unblameworthy

   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 38–41:

     He shall be as now nameles,
     But he shall not be blameles,
     Nor he shall not be shameles;
     For sure he wrought amys, […]

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “blameless”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “blameless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.