Definition of Innocent

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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

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald Reagan

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

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

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush

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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