单词 | innocence |
释义 | innocencen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1340 |
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