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Traditional English :: blameless
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blameless.html - adj. innocent; free from blame. blamelessly adv. blamelessness n. |
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English Idioms :: blame
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blameless.html - See: TO BLAME. |
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Traditional English :: blame
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blameless.html - v. & n. --v.tr.
1 assign fault or responsibility to.
2 (foll. by on) assign the responsibility for (an error or wrong) to a person etc. (blamed his death on a poor diet). --n. 1 responsibility for a bad result; culpability (shared the blame equally; put the blame on the bad weather).
2 the act of blaming or attributing responsibility; censure (she got all the blame). be to blame (often foll. by for) be responsible; deserve censure (she is not to blame for the accident). have only oneself to blame be solely responsible (for something one suffers). I don't blame you etc. I think your etc. action was justifiable. blameable adj. [ME f. OF bla(s)mer (v.), blame (n.) f. pop.L blastemare f. eccl.L blasphemare reproach f. Gk blasphemeo blaspheme] |
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Traditional English :: blameful
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blameless.html - adj. deserving blame; guilty. |
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Traditional English :: blameless
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blameless.html - adj. innocent; free from blame. blamelessly adv. blamelessness n. |
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Traditional English :: blameworthy
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blameless.html - adj. deserving blame. |
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