Innocence

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  • noun. The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, especially.
  • noun. Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.
  • noun. Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.
  • noun. Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness.
  • noun. Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naivetĂ©.
  • noun. One that is innocent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pretty American scrophulariaceous plant, Collinsia verna, the flowers of which have the lower lip blue and the upper purple or nearly white.
  • noun. Harmlessness; innoxiousness: as, the innocence of a neutral article of diet in disease.
  • noun. Freedom from moral wrong; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity; sinlessness; artlessness: as, the innocence of childhood; angelic innocence.
  • noun. Freedom from legal or specific wrong; absence of particular guilt or taint; guiltlessness: as, the prisoner proved his innocence.
  • noun. Freedom from legal taint; absence of illegality: said of things, particularly of property that might be contraband of war: as, the innocence of a cargo or of merchandise.
  • noun. Simplemindedness; mental imbecility; want of knowledge or of sense; ignorance or idiocy.
  • noun. The bluet, Houstonia cærulea. See Houstonia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
  • noun. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.
  • noun. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense.
  • noun. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Absence of responsibility for a crime.
  • noun. Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
  • noun. Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense
  • noun. the quality of innocent naivete
  • noun. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
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