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innocence

[in-uh-suh

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noun

the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong.

freedom from legal or specific wrong; guiltlessness: The prisoner proved his innocence.

simplicity; absence of guile or cunning; naiveté.

lack of knowledge or understanding.

harmlessness; innocuousness.

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chastity.

an innocent person or thing.

bluet (def. 1).

blue-eyed Mary.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin innocentia. See innocent, -ence

Related forms

su·per·in·no·cence, noun

Can be confused: innocence, innocents.

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Readers share their tales of innocence lost as fans.

My dedication to the campus mirrored the panic and innocence of all too many newly hired faculty members.

He hopes that their innocence will be shown on appeal.

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Readers share their tales of innocence lost as fans.

My dedication to the campus mirrored the panic and innocence of all too many newly hired faculty members.

He hopes that their innocence will be shown on appeal.

The scriptures do not agree on the governor's ultimate degree of guilt or innocence.

The woman was released from prison last year and has continued to search for ways to publicly prove her professed innocence.

Rose's youthful innocence shines through even in newspaper photographs, as does her unswerving devotion to her husband.

On the other hand, you have an innocent person who can't demonstrate their innocence because you protect the right to privacies.

Given all the stuff they're throwing at you, it can't establish your innocence but it sure can deepen your woes.

The increasing evidence of innocence on death row has shifted the terms of the debate.

So any innocence about our government was tempered by those revelations.

May stresses need to emphasize the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence.

The winged innocence of watercolor belies the reality of bloodied birds.

Please do not click if you have any shred of innocence left, as this picture will rip it directly from your soul.

Behind their beliefs is the hopeless longing for innocence.

There is no such thing as the guilt or innocence of an entire nation.

At times he has declared his innocence and then later confessed to being a willing criminal.

He never addressed the science of that in the terms you have but in my youthful innocence it seemed to make sense.

Beauty of the soul reflected in the innocence of a child.

Following a two-day evidentiary hearing a judge denied his claim of innocence.

Oblivious to the furor he had created, he was all angelic innocence.

We look hard at their faces, calculating guilt or innocence.

Several hundred of his supporters continue to protest his innocence.

Children evoke an innocence rarely seen outside sepia photographs.

Spongebob's childlike innocence is to be cherished, worshipped.

Photography lost its innocence not long after it was born.

The pages have rich, simple colors, and the innocence of the characters help kids identify with the characters' predicaments.

If he is not rational, he will express and fight for his innocence.

Once a female with an infant on her back had climbed with startling innocence upon a low branch to sit with.

Although he was prematurely bald he could never shake off a look of invincible innocence.

It manages to capture that wonder and innocence while still challenging the listener with its eclectic tastes.

The innocence a defendant enjoys before the verdict can never be truly recaptured after a nation has seen him in the dock.

In fact, it was an intelligent and moving satire of paranoia, weaponry and innocence that was as decidedly antiwar as it was pro.

The same presumption of innocence goes for copyright and privacy.

Her juxtaposition of tiny innocence and motherly toughness was exactly what that role needed.

My cat on the other hand, is smart enough to feign innocence and surpriseand to frame the dog when convenient.

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World English Dictionary

innocence (ˈɪnəsəns)

—n
	Archaic word: innocency the quality or state of being innocent

[C14: from Latin innocentia harmlessness, from innocēns doing no harm, blameless, from in-¹ + nocēns harming, from nocēre to hurt, harm; see noxious]

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"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."

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