guiltless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective free from evil or guilt
    clean-handed; innocent.
    • an innocent child
    • the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty

WordNet


Guilt"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Free from guilt; innocent.
    The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7.
  2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
    Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton.
    -- Guilt"less*ly, adv. -- Guilt"less*ness, n.

Webster 1913