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Meaning of INNOCENT

Pronunciation:  'inusunt

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a person who lacks knowledge of evil
  2. [adj]  (archaic) used of things; lacking sense or awareness; "ignorant hope"; "fine innocent weather"
  3. [adj]  lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank"
  4. [adj]  free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
  5. [adj]  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"
  6. [adj]  free from sin
 
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 Synonyms: absolved, acquitted, blameless, clean-handed, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, guiltless, harmless, ignorant, impeccant, inculpable, inexperienced person, ingenuous, innocuous, irreproachable, naif, naive, not guilty, sinless, unconscious, unimpeachable, vindicated, virtuous
 
 Antonyms: guilty
 
 See Also: boy scout, dear, exculpatory, human, individual, lamb, mortal, person, righteous, somebody, someone, soul, virgin

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
                                               --Pope.
2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin;
   pure; upright.
         To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. --Shak.
         I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent
         blood.                                --Matt. xxvii.
                                               4.
         The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey.
                                               --Milton.
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. --Ps. xix.
                                               13.
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.

  2. \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.
                                               --Sir W.
                                               Scott.
{Innocents' day} (Eccl.), Childermas day.
 
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