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Definition of Innocent
Innocent

Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.

Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.

Simple; artless; foolish.

Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.

Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.

An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.

An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.

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Innocent Quotations

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden

Innocent Translations

innocent in Afrikaans is onskuldig
innocent in Dutch is onschuldig, onbedorven, onnozel
innocent in French is innocent
innocent in German is unschuldig
innocent in Latin is inculpatus, insons insontis
innocent in Norwegian is uskyldig
innocent in Portuguese is inocente
innocent in Spanish is inocente, inculpable


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