the belief that limbo is the place where sinless but unbaptized souls abide until Judgment Day
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The fact of elven immortality should also not create the impression of a sinless race.—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023 People started seeing children as pure, as these like blank slates that are sinless, that are innocent, that are like the pinnacle of virtue.—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 11 June 2021 God looks upon us and sees His perfect, sinless Son.—The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Sep. 2019
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of sinless was
before the 12th century
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