innocence

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They had, however, never exchanged any vows amid their pastimes, for their innocence was absolute.

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  1. noun The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, as:
  2. noun Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.
  3. noun Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.
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  • She had never been anything but innocent; but my innocence was a transformation wrought by my love for her, love which melted away my cynicism and whitened my sullied soul and gave me back the wholesome dreams of my boyhood. —  The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  • There were many who did not commit the crime, and their innocence was the basic topic for the entire day and night. —  The StandDown Texas Project
  • Whatever the reasons, the spectacle of a bunch of mega-rich, super-powerful people unable to buy their innocence is a welcome detour on the path to the complete corruption of the Presidential pardon. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Large eyes are device to convey emotion and innocence, which is why all the bad guys in AVATAR appear more asian to western eyes because their eyes were drawn smaller. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • Here is one place in Scripture where we see that purity is way more than sexual innocence, which is how we usually tend to think of it. —  The Purple Cellar
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  1. from Middle English innocence, from Old French (also F.) innocence = Provencal innocencia, ignocencia = Spanish inocencia = Portuguese innocencia = Italian innocenza, innocenzia, from Latin innocentia, harmlessness, blamelessness, uprightness, from innocen(t-)s, harmless: see innocent.
 

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