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Definition of Innocents
1. innocent [n] - See also: innocent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Innocents
Literary usage of Innocents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"innocents. The charges above mentioned, at length, however, came to the ears ...
Of the Massacre of the innocents. WHEN people speak of the massacre of the ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"The very title— The innocents Abroad— is a suggestive hint of the lawlessness
and audacity in which the trip is treated. We shall not stop to question the ..."
3. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"Fr. Le Massacre des innocents. Germ. Der Kindermord. \_A. J.—THE artistic treatment
of all the Scriptural and legendary incidents connected with the early ..."
4. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"Fr. Le Massacre des innocents. Germ. ... Mother are in any way actors, which yet
remains to be treated more at large, namely, the Massacre of the innocents. ..."
5. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1881)
"Fr. Le Massacre des innocents. Germ. Der Kindermord. [AJ—THE artistic treatment
of all the Scriptural and legendary incidents connected with the early years ..."
6. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... LXX innocents AT HOME—AND "THE innocents ABROAD" HE was in Jacksonville,
Illinois, at the end of January (1869), and in a letter to Bliss states that he ..."
7. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"Subsequently a special day was set apart for the festival of the innocents, a
day in close proximity to that on which the Lord's Nativity is celebrated ..."
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