Definition of Innocence

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Innocence

The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.

The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.

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Innocence Quotations

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Paula Abdul

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam Smith

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor

Innocence Translations

innocence in Danish is uskyld
innocence in Dutch is onschuld, onbedorvenheid
innocence in German is Unschuld, Arglosigkeit {f}
innocence in Italian is innocenza
innocence in Norwegian is uskyld, uskyldighet
innocence in Spanish is inocencia
innocence in Swedish is oskuld

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