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• n  a state of innocence

• Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant.
• The State Department's brazen assertion of its own utter guiltlessness made less than no sense, notably in view of the fact that it sank $2 billion into a situation it had long .

• blamelessness
• inculpability
• inculpableness