Giltless

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) Guiltless; not guilty..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Guiltless; not guilty.
2. Not gilded; lacking gilt.

Example Sentences

Ther is noe doute butt the cuntrie has beene at a highe expense in maintaininge thos forces, and of theyr stringth nowe in time of neede there is noe visable signe; lett the faulte light where it will I am confident I am giltless;

Come, come, my good shepherds, our flocks we must shear, In your holy-day suits, with your lasses appear; The happiest of folk, are the giltless and free And who are so giltless so happy as we ?

Sacred and just, thou great and dreadfull Jove, And you thrice reverende powers, whom love nor hate May wrest awry, if this to me a man, This fortune fatall bee, that I must pleade For safe excusall of my giltless thought,

O Death rocke me on slepe, Bringe me on quiet reste, Let passe my merye giltless goste, Out of my careful brest; Toll on the passinge bell, Ringe out the dolefull knell, Let the sounde my dethe tell, For I must dye,

Masses of these same anemones, mingled with plumes of their feathery green leaves, and interspersed with blossomed twigs from trees of cherry, peach, and almond, filled a curious old e/pergne in the centre of the table, while on an ancient, almost giltless, gilt console, beneath a mirror that reflected the stainless blue of the sky, was a large, richly-blossomed branch of the white almond.

And looks—well, we conscientiously work at keeping our lilies giltless.

He took his eyes on a sight-seeing tour of the room, pausing here and there at points of interest: an oak sideboard tattooed with circular soaks of ink; a buckhorn hatrack; four stuttering chairs left from a silent set of six; an engraving of The Horse Fair, now foxed; a row of giltless books; a waffled couch that for ten years had served as a boy's bed ; and a map of the United States.

Giltless on its front, a sign of more difficult times economically, this is nonetheless a fine book, Sutton Palmer's illustrations admirably complemented by Miss Mitton's text, which was written just before she married Sir George Scott and left the firm.

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