Lexicographical Neighbors of Innocencies
Literary usage of Innocencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful by Emanuel Swedenborg (1871)
"THE lust of seducing innocencies is neither the lust of defloration, ... The women,
who appear to them as innocencies, are such as regard the evil of ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"innocencies Triumph, or an Answer to ... William Prynne,' &c., 1644, 4to (two
editions same year, ... 57) quotes Goodwin ('innocencies Triumph,' p. ..."
3. The Middle Years by Katharine Tynan (1917)
"The next letter, dated Christmas Eve, 1905, acknowledges " innocencies " and gives me
... My dear Mrs. Katharine Tynan,—I thank you for ' innocencies. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"... of seducing innocencies '' (in which the desire is to despoil innocence because
it is innocence). These appear in the spiritual world as serpents. ..."
5. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1885)
"... always do) into petty felicities and innocencies of genre painting—landscapes,
cattle, family breakfasts, village schoolings, anil the like ; or else, ..."
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