blamelessness

/ˈblām How to pronounce blame (audio)/ (ame, mw)

blamelessness — 名詞

1. the condition of not deserving blame or fault for something wrong that happened.

1.名詞C2
釋義

無辜；清白

不該受責備的狀態

the condition of not deserving blame or fault for something wrong that happened.

例句

After the fire drill report, the principal accepted Eitan's blamelessness at once.

火警演習的報告出來後，校長立刻接受 Eitan 是清白的。

accept someone's blamelessness after an investigation

Nora's quiet blamelessness stood out when the missing money was found in the manager's desk.

當那筆失蹤的錢在經理的抽屜裡被找到時，Nora 的那種無辜感特別明顯。

blamelessness in a missing-money accusation

同義詞
  • innocence

    the everyday word; also covers purity and lack of worldly experience.

  • guiltlessness

    very close formal synonym, especially in legal or moral writing.

  • faultlessness

    shifts toward the absence of mistakes rather than absence of blame.

反義詞
  • culpability

    formal opposite meaning responsibility for a wrong.

  • blameworthiness

    focuses directly on deserving blame.

  • guilt

    the ordinary opposite in legal or moral contexts.

文法句型

the blamelessness of [person/thing]

someone's blamelessness

用法筆記

Most often used in formal discussion of accidents, mistakes, or moral responsibility. Common after verbs like prove, establish, and maintain, and in patterns such as 'the blamelessness of X'. Less likely than 'innocence' when the focus is a child's purity or lack of experience.

常見錯誤

❌The baby smiled with blamelessness.
✅The baby smiled with innocence.
💡'blamelessness' is about not deserving blame, not childlike purity.
❌The teacher gave her blamelessness for the broken window.
✅The teacher accepted that she was blameless for the broken window.
💡use the noun for a state, not as something someone gives.