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noun

Innocence n.

The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. "The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails." "Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence!"

The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.

Synonyms: Harmlessness; innocuousness; blamelessness; purity; sinlessness; guiltlessness.

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Etymology of 'Innocence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Innocence" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lagarto was pleading his innocence of the only thing which he counted sin, and asseverating his devotion to the only being he loved; and this, condensed, is the story to which Mrs. Brundage attached all ...

— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming

... up and come to me! Not as a visitor either, nor a sweet And winsome child of innocence; nor As an insolent mistress ...

— Look! We Have Come Through! • D. H. Lawrence

... cherish her like a tender plant; she deceives me for the coarsest fellow she can find. Another comes the frank and candid dodge; she is so off-handed she shows me it is not worth her while to betray. She deceives me, like the other, and with as little discrimination. The next has a face of beaming innocence, and a limpid eye that looks like transparent candor; she gazes long and calmly in my face, as if her eye loved to dwell on me, gazes with the eye of a gazelle or a young hare, and the baby lips below outlie the hoariest male fox in the Old Jewry. But, to complete the delusion, all my ...

— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

... narrative be exact, unless, indeed, we have some a priori ground for supposing that human nature never could have been in a state where the voice of God and angels sounded in its ears, and where innocence and the absence of all evil emotion was the daily condition of life? The unbeliever may sneer at such a state, but reason why it should not have been, he can give none. So, again, with the idea of ...

— Creation and Its Records • B.H. Baden-Powell

... the thought of the trouble, the distress and sorrow it would be to Margaret and my uncle and aunt, to hear that I had died an ignominious death at the yard-arm, assured though they might be of my innocence, which caused me the ...

— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston

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