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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



... according to a popular story of the time, "were full to profusion of hares, rabbits, and goslings." Again, at the solemn entry of Louis XI. into Paris, a representation of a doe hunt took place near the fountain St. Innocent; "after which the queen received a present of a magnificent stag, made of confectionery, and having the royal arms hung round its neck." At the memorable festival given at Lille, in 1453, by the Duke of Burgundy, a very curious performance took place. "At one end of the table," ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... slightly, and looked at John with some suspicion. But John put on so innocent and artless a look that Mr. Mudge at once dismissed the idea that there was any covert meaning in what he said. Meanwhile Paul, from his hiding-place in the bushes, had listened with anxiety to the foregoing ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger

... bullet through the brains of the savage wolf was soon done, but, alas! it was too late to save the little innocent fawn, whose great, big, beautiful eyes were already glassy in death, and whose life-blood pouring out from the gaping wounds was crimsoning the leaves and ...
— Oowikapun - How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians • Egerton Ryerson Young

... will begin to cease. Let it be left off gradually—no fasting is required. Take what you feel you require. The food craved for will be the most innocent and simple. Fruit and milk will usually be the best. Then as till now, you have been simplifying the quality of your food, gradually—very gradually—as you feel capable of it diminish the quantity. You will ask: "Can a man exist without food?" No, but before you mock, consider the character ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... Cocoa-nuts. —— steel (ondanique). Indies, the Three, and their distribution. Indifference, religious, of Mongol Emperors. Indigo, mode of manufacture at Coilum, in Guzerat; Cambay; prohibited by London Painters' Guild. Indo-China, States. Indragiri River. Infants, exposure of. Ingushes of Caucasus. Innocent IV., Pope. Inscription, Jewish, at Kaifungfu. Insult, mode of, in South India. Intramural interment prohibited. Invulnerability, devices for. 'Irak. Irghai. Irish, accused of eating their dead kin. —— M.S. version of Polo's Book. ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa


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