Meaning of INNOCENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'inusuns
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- [n] the quality of innocent naivete
- [n] a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence"
- [n] the state of being free from sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
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| | Synonyms: | | artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness, purity, sinlessness |
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| | Antonyms: | | guilt, guiltiness | | |
| | See Also: | | blamelessness, cleanness, clear, condition, guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, status | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In"no*cence\, n. [F. innocence, L. innocentia. See
{Innocent}.]
1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that
which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
2. 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. --Shak.
Banished from man's life his happiest life,
Simplicity and spotless innocence! --Milton.
3. 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.
4. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or
silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. --Chaucer. Shak.
Syn: Harmlessness; innocuousness; blamelessness; purity;
sinlessness; guiltlessness.
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| | Related Terms: | | agnosticism, artlessness, benignancy, benignity, blankmindedness, blotlessness, bluffness, bluntness, callowness, candor, chastity, childlikeness, cleanliness, cleanness, directness, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, harmlessness, hiatus of learning, honor, hurtlessness, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immaculacy, immaculateness, inanity, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, inoffensiveness, knowledge-gap, know-nothingism, lack of information, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nescience, obscurantism, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, purity, rawness, sexual innocence, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, snowiness, spotlessness, stainlessness, tabula rasa, taintlessness, trustfulness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, unfamiliarity, unguardedness, uninjuriousness, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unobnoxiousness, unripeness, unsoiledness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, unsuspiciousness, untaintedness, unwariness, vacuity, vacuousness, virtue, virtuousness, whiteness |
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