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Innocence; the state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
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Innocence, simplicity, lack of deceit or guile.
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Innocence, harmlessness.
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An innocence; an innocent idea or thing.
Examples of innocency in a Sentence
His eyes never lost their glow, and were said by a woman to be those of one " who had kept innocency all his days."
People had generally a love to me for my innocency and honesty."
He wrote 3 to the Lords excusing his absence, requesting them to appoint a convenient time for his defence and cross-examination of witnesses, and imploring them not to allow their minds to be prejudiced against him, at the same time declaring that he would not " trick up an innocency with cavillations, but plainly and ingenuously declare what he knew or remembered."
Basing itself probably on a union of certain gnostic and ascetic doctrines, this sect pretended that its members were re-established in Adam's state of original innocency.