innocence
IPA: ˈɪnʌsʌns
noun
- Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc.
- Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
- Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
- (obsolete) Imbecility; mental deficiency.
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Examples of "innocence" in Sentences
- The word innocence is composed of in - 'not' and nocere
- And then we release them months later when their innocence is apparent.
- It removes more than half my misfortune; and I feel as if I could die in peace, now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin.
- Mrs. Freakley laughed at what she called the innocence of the Child of Nature. — “No fear, Jemima, my love,” said she, “but what you will have offers enough — whether you will get a good husband is the question.”
- How that dark grey stuff was the molten stones and refuse which remained after the metal had been cleared, and then he laughed at what he called my innocence, as I asked him if the ingots, as he called the square masses which now looked quite white, were silver.
- Describing his nine nights in jail as "solitary confinement in the bottom of a Victorian prison," he thanked his attorneys and supporters, including the prominent backers who posted his bail, before vowing to continue WikiLeaks' work as he tries to prove what he described as his innocence in the sex-crime cases.
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