innocent

[In·no*cent]

You may think your fluffy white cat is just an innocent, or harmless, little kitty, but she shows no mercy when attacking that toy mouse.

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Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

Noun
a person who lacks knowledge of evil

Adjective S.
used of things; lacking sense or awareness; "ignorant hope"; "fine innocent weather"

Adjective S.
lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank"

Adjective
free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"

Adjective S.
lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child''s innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"

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Adjective S.
free from sin


a.
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

a.
Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.

a.
Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.

a.
Simple; artless; foolish.

a.
Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.

a.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.

n.
An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.

n.
An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.


Innocent

In"no*cent , a. [F.innocent, L. innocens, -entis; pref. in- not + nocens, p.pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See Noxious.] 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. Shak. 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. Syn. -- Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.

Innocent

In"no*cent, n. 1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. Shak. 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. B. Jonson.
In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent.
Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day.

Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.

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Usage Examples

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

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Other Usage Examples

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

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