a. [f. VICE sb.1 1.] Free from vice.

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1560.  Rolland, Seven Sages, 5. To that effect, that he may viceless be, Of all vices, and sic thing as gais wrang.

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1591.  Savile, Tacitus, Hist., I. xlix. 27. Galba … rather vicelesse than greatly vertuous.

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1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., V. ii. (1675), 301. Errours about Religion,… maintain’d by Men that are resolute, and viceless.

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1671–4.  Lady Warwick, Autobiog. (Percy Soc.), 164. Mr. Henry St. John was very good natured and viceless. Ibid. The young men were not viceless.

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1847.  J. Halliday, Rustic Bard, 321.

        Viceless virtue, undecaying,
  Shed her lustre on our name;
Let us all, as one assaying,
  Strive to keep the ennobling gem.

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1890.  Sat. Rev., 22 Nov., 575/1. Those who are themselves sinless and viceless.

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