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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



... held dominion over England, men of iron as they were, could not but be touched with the unhappy fate of this their beautiful and innocent victim; and they so far relented from the severity of the policy which they had pursued toward the ill-fated family as to send the little Gloucester, after his sister's death, home to ...
— History of King Charles II of England • Jacob Abbott
... the watches by Bevan in the corn ground between Parramatta and Toongabbie; but as they had never been found in his possession, he resolved on obstinately persisting in the declaration that, however guilty of others, he was at least innocent of this offence; and he thus escaped this time from justice, to be led, perhaps at no very distant period, if not sufficiently warned, with surer step to the gallows that he had so often merited, and in the high road to which he seemed ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins
... to my taste, is more palatable than most distilled liquors, having a very decided and peculiar flavor. It is a little fiery when new, but as water soon quenches fire, it is not spared by the native retailers, whose arrack would be of a most innocent character were it not for their infamous addition of stupefying drugs and ...
— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker
... Alexander in turn addressed: "Hector, since it is thy intention to find fault with me when innocent, at some other time perhaps, I may be more neglectful of the fight; [but not now], since neither did my mother bear me altogether unwarlike. For from the time when thou didst stir up the battle of ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer
... dreadful to be talked about,' and so on. My mother tells me that there is a general feeling abroad that Miss Colwyn is not a person to be trusted with young girls. Now that is a terrible slur upon an innocent woman who has to earn her own living, Lady Caroline; and I really must beg that you and Margaret will set ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant


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