a. [f. BLAME + -LESS.]
† 1. Exempt from censure or blame; free from charge or reproof; uncensured. Obs.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XI. 306. Neyther is blamelees · þe bisshop ne þe chapleyne, For her eyther is endited.
1526. Tindale, Matt. xii. 5. The prestes in the temple breake the saboth daye and yet are blamlesse. So 1611.
2. Giving no cause for blame; undeserving of reproach; faultless, guiltless.
1535. Coverdale, Titus i. 6. Yf eny be blamelesse, the huszbande of one wife … A Bisshoppe must be blamelesse.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., II. 124. The blamelesse behaviour of the Christians.
1851. Dixon, W. Penn, xxviii. (1872), 262. John Hough, a man of blameless life.
1859. Tennyson, Merl. & Viv., 162. The blameless King.
b. Const. of.
1611. Bible, Josh. ii. 17. Wee will bee blamelesse of this thine oath.
1747. Mallet, Amyntor & Theodora, I. 9. Blameless still of arts That polish to deprave.
† 3. Not imputing or containing blame. Obs.
1595. Spenser, Col. Clout, 749. Blame is … more blamelesse generall, Then that which private errours doth pursew.
