innocent

From Old French inocent, borrowed from Latin innocens (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəsn̩t/

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innocent (comparative more innocent, superlative most innocent)

1. Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.

   • to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb

   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV. iii. 16.
   • 2018 September 26, Brian Karem, "Bethesda Resident Describes "Culture Of Privilege" Leading To Exploitation And Abuse" in The Montgomery County Sentinel

     "These were not innocent times," she said.

2. Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
3. Naive; artless.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, V. ii. 37:

     I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;

4. (obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.

   an innocent medicine or remedy

   • Alexander Pope

     The spear / Sung innocent, and spent its force in air.

5. (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
6. (with of) Lacking (something).
7. Lawful; permitted.

   an innocent trade

8. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

   innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation

• (free from blame or guilt): sackless, guiltless
• (free from sin): pure, untainted
• (naive): See also Thesaurus:naive

• (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act): guilty, nocent
• (naive): perverse

• innocence
• innocently
• innocuous

innocent (plural innocents)

1. One who is innocent, especially a young child.

   The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.

2. (obsolete) A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.

Borrowed from Latin innocens, innocentem (“harmless, inoffensive”).

• Rhymes: -ent

innocent (masculine and feminine plural innocents)

1. innocent

• innocentment

• innocència
• innocentada

• El dia dels innocents on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

From Old French inocent, borrowed from Latin innocens, innocentem (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”).

• IPA^(key): /i.nɔ.sɑ̃/

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innocent (feminine singular innocente, masculine plural innocents, feminine plural innocentes)

1. innocent

• innocemment
• innocence
• innocenter

innocent m (plural innocents)

1. an innocent (innocent person)
2. (figuratively) a naive person

• “innocent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).