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crimeless en · ADJ

Etymology

From crime + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without crime.
    • He found Japan to be a crimeless, almost Utopian society — a “fairyland” populated with “the most lovable people in the universe,” as he wrote. 2007 February 20, Martin Fackler, “Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japan’s Folk Tales”, in New York Times:
  2. (not-comparable) Free from crime; innocent.
    • I am loyal, true, and crimeless 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Deriveds

crimelessness

Synonyms

crimefree