groundlessness

Updated: June 9, 2025

I also was seen, and suspected so far that my reverend father, my mother, and myself were examined privately. I denied all knowledge of the matter; and they held it in such a ridiculous light, and their conviction of the complete groundlessness of the suspicion was so perfect, that their testimony prevailed, and the affair was hushed.

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

But he adds that there is a reverse to the picture, and that "this colony, so high-spirited, so warlike, and apparently so loyal, would never move hand or foot in her own defence till certain of repayment by the mother country." The groundlessness of this charge is shown by abundant proofs, one of which will be enough.

Francis Parkman - Montcalm and Wolfe