crimeless
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]crimeless (not comparable)
- Without crime.
- 2007 February 20, Martin Fackler, “Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japan’s Folk Tales”, in New York Times[1]:
- He found Japan to be a crimeless, almost Utopian society — a “fairyland” populated with “the most lovable people in the universe,” as he wrote.
- Free from crime; innocent.
- 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]:
- I am loyal, true, and crimeless