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Definition of Innocency
1. Noun. An innocent quality or thing or act. "The innocencies of childhood"
Definition of Innocency
1. n. Innocence.
Definition of Innocency
1. Noun. (uncountable archaic) Innocence; the state of being free from guilt or moral wrong. ¹
2. Noun. (uncountable archaic) Innocence, simplicity, lack of deceit or guile. ¹
3. Noun. (uncountable archaic) Innocence, harmlessness. ¹
4. Noun. (archaic) An innocence; an innocent idea or thing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Innocency
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Innocency
Literary usage of Innocency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"{innocency and Truth Justified, pp. 25, 43, 46, 69 ; The Resolved Mans Resolution,
p. 32). He also succeeded in quarrelling, first with Colonel King and ..."
2. Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions and by Robert Hunt (1865)
"innocency. TO wash the hands is an attestation of innocency. To call a man "dirty
fingers," is to accuse him of some foul or unjust deed. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"Testimonies of heathen adversaries to the doctrines, character, innocency of
life, and constancy oft/if first Christians tn the profession of their faith. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"673, is inserted sir Robert Atkins's Defence of the late lord Russell's innocency :
By way of Answer or Confutation of a Libellous ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"... and the minister put on him his white vesture, commonly called the Chrisom,
and say, Take this white vesture for a token of the innocency which by God's ..."
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