a. [UN-1 7 b.] Blameless, irreproachable.
1531. Tindale, Exp. 1 John (1537), 100. A man of maruaylous integrete and vnblameable.
1579. W. Wilkinson, Confut. Fam. Love, Ep. Ded. *iij b. [They] would fayne in lyfe seeme innocent and vnblameable.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus i. 6 (1619), 93, margin. The most commendable conformitie is to ioyne to vncorrupt doctrine an vnblameable life.
1693. Apol. Clergy Scot., 15. I know not a more unblamable Company of men upon Earth than the Episcopal Clergy of Scotland.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., I. v. I. 72. His Followers, whom their very Enemies acknowledged to be unblameable in their actions.
1781. Cowper, Hope, 622. If, unblameable in word and thought, A man arise.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iv. 230. That Scotland would forgive him [Knox] for having been worth to it any million ‘unblamable’ Scotchmen that need no forgiveness!
Hence Unblam(e)ableness.
1638. Bp. Reynolds, Serm., 12 July, 42. Piety and unblameablenesse of living.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Lanc., II. (1662), 107. Elizabeths unblameableness,… the Canaanitish Womans faith, Mary Magdalens charity.
1698. Killingbeck, Serm. (1717), 23. The Integrity of his Heart, and the Unblamableness of his Life.
