a. Obs. [UN-1 7 b, 5 b.] Not culpable or blameworthy; free from fault or blame.

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1382.  Wyclif, Num. xxxii. 22. Thanne ȝe shulen be vnculpable anentis God, and anentis Irael.

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1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 355/1. For then is the fayth of the church in that point infallyble, or at ye lest vnculpable.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., III. vii. § 2. Which the Iewes obseruing as yet vnwritten,… are notwithstanding in that respect vnculpable.

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1613.  Jackson, Creed, II. vii. § 11. We vpon inuincible or vnculpable ignorance, did not apprehend it for such.

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1659.  Stanley, Hist. Philos., XIII. (1687), 912. It behoves us … not to suffer wickedness to escape unculpable.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, VII. 55. You shall set over me, instead of my poor obliging, but really unculpable Hannah, your Betty Barnes.

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