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Innocent   /ˈɪnəsənt/   Listen
adjective
Innocent  adj.  
1.
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. "The spear Sung innocent, and spent its force in air."
2.
Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. "To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb." "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." "The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey."
3.
Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. "Innocent from the great transgression."
4.
Simple; artless; foolish.
5.
Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
6.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.
Synonyms: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.


noun
Innocent  n.  
1.
An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.
2.
An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. "In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent."
Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day.





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"Innocent" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hidden reserves of destructive hate and cruelty in our common human soul. In war all things are permissible. To murder, to maim, to destroy, to deceive, to make hideous waste of fertile land, to cause weeping and wailing amongst the innocent—these are the necessities of warfare. They are the commonplace incidents of war. There are others. It brings to the surface strata of human nature to which culture has never descended. It explodes our humanitarian theories by a series of well-directed mines. The ancient ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby
... of the band turned her head at the exclamation. She was a fine and handsome girl—not handsomer than some others, possibly—but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape. She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment. As she looked round Durbeyfield was seen moving along the road in a chaise belonging to The Pure Drop, driven by a ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... references to the flute, and Dickens contrives to get much innocent fun out of it. First comes Mr. Mell, who used to carry his instrument about with him and who, in response to his mother's invitation to 'have a blow at it' while David Copperfield was having his breakfast, made, said David, 'the most dismal sounds I have ever heard ...
— Charles Dickens and Music • James T. Lightwood
... Revolution. In the summer of 1798 there were men languishing for the fifth year in prison, whose offences had never been investigated, and whose relatives were not allowed to know whether they were dead or alive. A mode of expression, a fashion of dress, the word of an informer, consigned innocent persons to the dungeon, with the possibility of torture. In the midst of this tyranny of suspicion, in the midst of a corruption which made the naval and military forces of the kingdom worse than useless, King Ferdinand and his satellites were unwearied ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... difference about him if I get my lessons, sir? I can't let Bug go now. We are the limit for each other—neither of us got anybody else. I take care of him, but he keeps me from getting too coarse and rough. Every fellow needs something innocent and good about ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter


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