a. (UN-1 7 b. Cf. late L. inaccūsābilis, F. inaccusable.)
1582. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 538. The saidis nobill men … salbe untroublid and unaccusabill for that caus in tyme cuming. Ibid. (1589), IV. 406. To be free and unaccusable for thair ressett and furnissing grantit to the saidis Erllis.
1651. Stanley, Poems, etc., 256. Persons exact and unaccusable in every part.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. 160. They thus receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection,… indulgently raise up a stately and unaccusable whole. Ibid. (1886), Præterita (1899), I. iv. 117. As much trigonometry as made my mountain work … unaccusable.
Hence Unaccusably adv.
1859. Ruskin, Arrows of Chace (1880), I. 199. Every man … unaccusably accomplished … for his place and function. Ibid. (1870), Lect. Art, vi. 161. The slightest attempts to copy them will show you that the terminal lines are … unaccusably true.
