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innocency
1. An innocent quality or action.
2. Properly, freedom from any quality that can injure; innoxiousness; harmlessness; as the innocence of a medicine which can do no harm.
3. In a moral sense, freedom from crime, sin or guilt; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity.
4. Freedom from guilt or evil intentions; simplicity of heart; such as, the innocence of a child.
5. Freedom from the guilt of a particular sin or crime.

This is the sense in which the word is most generally used, for perfect innocence cannot be predicated of man. A man charged with theft or murder may prove his innocence.

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