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innocency en · NOUN

From Middle English innocencie, from Latin innocentia. Doublet of innocence.

(archaic, countable, uncountable) Synonym of innocence: ▸ Harmlessness.
- That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients […] 1646, Thomas Browne, chapter II, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 5:
(archaic, countable, uncountable) Synonym of innocence: ▸ Lack of deceit or guile; simplicity.
(archaic, countable, uncountable) Synonym of innocence: ▸ The state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
- The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency. 1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler:
(archaic, countable) An innocent idea or thing; an innocence.
- It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies, than with dark human passions, […] 1902, William James, “Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-mindedness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 80:

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