impeccability.
clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.]
[Vergil].
innocent, lamb, dove.
V. be innocent &c adj.; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Lat.]
[Horace].
acquit &c 970; exculpate &c (vindicate) 937.
Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty†; guiltless, faultless, sinless,
stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia
[Lat.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c 939; unhardened†,
Saturnian; Arcadian &c (artless) 703 [Obs.].
inculpable, unculpable†; unblamed, unblamable†; blameless,
unfallen†, inerrable†, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable†,
irreprehensible†; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable;
salvable†; venial &c 937.
harmless; inoffensive, innoxious†, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like;
pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe
unborn; more sinned against than sinning [Lear].
virtuous &c 944; unreproved†, unimpeached, unreproached†.
Adv. innocently &c adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience,
with a safe conscience.
Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].