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单词 innocence
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innocencen.

Brit. /ˈɪnəsns/, U.S. /ˈɪnəs(ə)ns/
Forms: Also Middle English -ense, Middle English–1500s -ens.
Etymology: < French innocence (12th cent.), < Latin innocēntia : see innocency n. and -ence suffix.
I. The quality or fact of being innocent.
1. Freedom from sin, guilt, or moral wrong in general; the state of being untainted with, or unacquainted with, evil; moral purity.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun]
unshathinessOE
loathlessnessc1200
unloathnessa1225
innoyandnessa1340
innocence1340
innocency1357
innocentness1482
virginity1975
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 146 Ine þise we onderstondeþ þe innocence þet we ssolle loki þe on a-ye þe oþre.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 143 In þo stat of innocense.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xviii. 203 Thenne were malyce free, and goodnesse and innocence neuer syker.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 70 And he, geue we beleue, hes coste His innocens for our trespas.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 373 Go in thy native innocence, relie On what thou hast of vertue. View more context for this quotation
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 603 How came our first Parents to sin, and to lose their Primitive Innocence?
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 5 Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease.
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal ii. 28 Holiness is innocence made perfect.
a1851 D. M. Moir Message of Seth in Poet. Wks. (1852) For Penitence, However deep it be, brings back not Innocence.
2. Freedom from specific guilt; the fact of not being guilty of that with which one is charged; guiltlessness.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun] > freedom from guilt
unguiltiheada1470
unguiltiness1535
innocency1542
innocence1559
guiltlessness1571
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence l All the worlde dyd know myne innocence.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 208 It will helpe me nothing To plead mine Innocence; for that dye is on me Which makes my whit'st part, black. View more context for this quotation
1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation ii. 92 If a Caietan..shall set favourable states to our Controversies, and give justly-charitable testimonies to our personall innocences.
1772 in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 312 Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should, in general, be admitted.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. i. 44 Timour..protested to the cadhi his innocence of the blood which he had shed.
3. Freedom from cunning or artifice; guilelessness, artlessness, simplicity; hence, want of knowledge or sense, ignorance, silliness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence
simplesse1372
simplenessa1382
innocencec1385
simplicitya1500
innocencya1513
ingenuousness1611
plain-heartedness1647
artlessness1663
naivety1708
naïveté1725
acacy1727
simple-heartedness1822
simple-mindedness1827
naiveness1854
onefoldness1887
authenticity1910
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [noun]
simplenessa1382
innocencec1385
simplessec1391
simplicityc1450
innocencya1513
simplehead1543
greenness1548
insipidity1603
seeliness1642
niaiserie1657
silliness1736
simpletonism1825
simple-mindedness1827
simpletonianism1848
noodleness1931
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1254 O sely wemen [v.r. woman] ful of Innocence..What makyth ȝow to men to truste so?
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 40 When eny..complayneth to the for the kynges Innocence, and seiden thei wolden thow sholde take vpon the to be kynge.
1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiiiv Least their singularitie reflect my simplicitie, their excellence conuince mee of innocence.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 65 The Shepheards Sonne..ha's not onely his Innocence (which seemes much) to iustifie him. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 299. ¶2 My little Daughter Harriot..asked me, with a great deal of Innocence, why I never told them of the Generals and Admirals that had been in my Family.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 70 The servants, who had traded on my innocence and simulated fever.
4. Of things: Harmlessness, innocuousness.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm
underingnessa1300
unnoyingnessa1500
unhurtfulness1549
harmlessness1596
safeness1607
inoffensiveness1641
innocuousness1644
innocency1665
innoxiousness1667
safety1689
undangerousness1817
innocence1828
dangerlessnessa1834
innocuity1855
uninjuriousness1860
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The innocence of a medicine which can do no harm.
II. concrete.
5. An innocent person or thing (in various senses of the adjective). (In quot. 1697 collective. Innocent creatures.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence > person
innocentc1386
innocencec1400
puppy dog1651
innocency1727
society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun] > person
lambc1000
innocent13..
innocencec1400
innocency1827
c1400 J. Lydgate Æsop's Fab. iii. 41 The sely sheepe..Stoode abasshed, ful like an innocence.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 145 The Mother Nightingale..Whose Nest some prying Churl had found, and thence, By Stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd Innocence . View more context for this quotation
1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant iv. iii. 54 Stay, my fair Innocence!
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough ii. i, in Wks. (1883) 296 Oh, this is better and better!—[Aloud] Well said, Innocence!
1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 93 Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence [a maiden babe].
6. A popular name of Houstonia cærulea, a North American plant, with small blue four-cleft flowers, also called Bluet.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American
innocent1600
lychnidea1733
swamp lily1737
atamasco lily1743
phlox1754
lychnis1760
painted cup1776
mountain pink1818
phacelia1818
innocence1821
Nemophila1822
clarkia1827
Physostegia1830
bitter root1838
standing cypress1841
false mermaid1845
lion's heart1845
shooting star1856
lewisia1863
satin flower1871
fame-flower1879
baby blue-eyes1887
mayflower1892
agastache1900
obedient plant1900
Pennsylvania anemone1900
rock rose1906
Virginia bluebell1934
parsley1936
poached egg flower1963
poached eggs1971
poached egg plant1977
1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 119 Fairy~flax-Bluett. Innocence. Venus' Pride.
1863 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1862 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 159 The ‘Bluets’, ‘Innocence’, ‘Dwarf Pink’, with, perhaps, some other common name, is one of the prettiest ornaments of our spring meadows.
1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 97 Houstonia cœrulea, innocence. Boston, Mass.
1954 C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 389 This familiar wild flower, also known as Innocence and Quaker-ladies, is a tufted or matted plant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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