innocency

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin innocēntia, from innocēns (innocent).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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innocency (countable and uncountable, plural innocencies)

  1. (uncountable, archaic) Synonym of innocence:
    1. Harmlessness.
      • 1646, Thomas Browne, chapter II, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], London: [] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, [], →OCLC, 1st book, page 5:
        That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients []
    2. Lack of deceit or guile; simplicity.
    3. The state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
  2. (countable, archaic) An innocent idea or thing; an innocence.

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