a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Free from crime; faultless, innocent.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., II. iv. 63. So long as I am loyall, true and crimelesse.
1621. W. Sclater, Tythes (1623), 121. To pleade himselfe crimelesse of all irreuerence.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 372/1. Thine was the glory of a nobler aim,—To be—the crimeless WASHINGTON of France!
1887. Daily News, 25 July, 6/7. Examples of crimeless districts.
Hence Crimelessness.
1846. North Star, 25 May, 1/1. Recognizing some face all too familiar in their days of crimelessness.
1897. United Ireland, 2 April, 5/2. Evidence of the absolute crimelessness of the country.
