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Innocence   /ˈɪnəsəns/   Listen
Innocence

noun
1.
The quality of innocent naivete.  Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness.
2.
The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil.  Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness.
3.
A state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense.





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"Innocence" Quotes from Famous Books



... a person to admire. In health his muscular power must have been immense. He possessed the frame of a young giant, and yet there was in his face a look of innocence and inexperience amazing even when ...
— Esmeralda • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... black-vested minister of Optimism, stern pioneer of happiness! Thou hast been the cloud before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt, and was led through the way of a wilderness—the cloud that had been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey—the milk of innocence, the honey of friendship! ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... some were not governed by others wiser than themselves. So by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in man the discretion of reason predominates. Nor is inequality among men excluded by the state of innocence, as we shall prove (Q. 96, ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... in a position to criticize the organizing arrangements of the newspaper. Not that these would have seemed excessively peculiar to anybody familiar with the haphazard improvisations of minor journalism in the provinces! She had indeed, in her innocence, imagined that the basic fact of a newspaper enterprise would be a printing-press; but when Mr. Dayson, who had been on The Signal and on sundry country papers in Shropshire, assured her that the majority of weekly sheets were printed ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... high; he felt himself inspired by the occasion; and although Jacques Rollet persisted in asserting his innocence, founding his defence chiefly on circumstances which were strongly corroborated by the information that had reached De Chaulieu the preceding evening, ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various


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