innocence
Use Innocence in a sentence
ə noun
1.
the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong.
2.
freedom from legal or specific wrong; guiltlessness: The prisoner proved his innocence.
3.
simplicity; absence of guile or cunning; naiveté.
4.
lack of knowledge or understanding.
5.
harmlessness; innocuousness.
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| —n | |
| Archaic word: innocency the quality or state of being innocent | |
| [C14: from Latin innocentia harmlessness, from innocēns doing no harm, blameless, from | |
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Example sentences
So any innocence about our government was tempered by those revelations.
Oblivious to the furor he had created, he was all angelic innocence.
At times he has declared his innocence and then later confessed to being a willing criminal.
The scriptures do not agree on the governor's ultimate degree of guilt or innocence.
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