innocently

English

Etymology

From innocent +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəsəntli/

Adverb

innocently (comparative more innocently, superlative most innocently)

1. In an innocent manner.
   • 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:

     [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.

Derived terms

• innocently divorced
• pseudo-innocently

Translations

in an innocent manner

• Catalan: innocentment
• Esperanto: senkulpe, senpeke
• Finnish: viattomasti (pure, free from sin, untainted; naive; harmless), syyttömästi (without legal responsibility)
• French: innocemment (fr)
• Greek: αθώα (el) (athóa)
• Italian: innocentemente (it)
• Polish: niewinnie (pl)
• Portuguese: inocentemente
• Spanish: inocentemente

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “innocently”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “innocently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.