Innocence
['ɪnəsəns] or ['ɪnəsns]
Definition
(noun.) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; 'the trial established his innocence'.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
(n.) The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.
Checker: Virgil
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Harmlessness, inoffensiveness, innocuousness, innoxiousness.[2]. Guiltlessness, sinlessness, blamelessness, guilelessness, purity.
Edited by Dorothy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Innocuousness, Inoffensiveness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, simplicity,purity, sinlessness
ANT:Hurtfulness, offensiveness, guile, guilt, contamination, corruption, impurity,sinfulness
Editor: Mary
Examples
- Down with it, innocence. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then you snatch love and innocence from me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Is THAT the secret of your pretence of innocence, and your story about Rosanna Spearman? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And Franklin Blake's innocence, as you have just seen, unanswerably asserts itself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Several strange facts combined against her, which might have staggered any one who had not such proof of her innocence as I had. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But assuming the proof to be possible, the vindication of your innocence would be no easy matter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Cast my innocence into the scale, answered Rebecca, and the glove of silk shall outweigh the glove of iron. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Intelligent insight into present forms of associated life is necessary for a character whose morality is more than colorless innocence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The idea of a Supreme Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For my own part, I do not hesitate to say, that, notwithstanding all the evidence produced against her, I believe and rely on her perfect innocence. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We often hear (almost invariably, however, from superficial observers) that guilt can look like innocence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If you won't take me before the magistrate, draw out a declaration of your innocence on paper, and I will sign it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Conscious of his own innocence, he did not endeavour to hide himself when the door of the workhouse, his sanctuary, was breaking open. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Is not all punishment inflicted beyond the merit of the offence, so much punishment of innocence? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But do not mourn, my dear girl; I will every where proclaim your innocence, and force belief. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Checked by Janice