innocence

innocence
    n 1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: {artlessness},
         {innocence}, {ingenuousness}, {naturalness}]
    2: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a
       knowledge of evil [syn: {purity}, {pureness}, {sinlessness},
       {innocence}, {whiteness}]
    3: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or
       offense; "the trial established his innocence" [ant: {guilt},
       {guiltiness}]
    

Innocence \In"no*cence\, n. [F. innocence, L. innocentia. See
   {Innocent}.]
   1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that
      which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
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   2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or
      sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.
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            The silence often of pure innocence
            Persuades when speaking fails.        --Shak.
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            Banished from man's life his happiest life,
            Simplicity and spotless innocence!    --Milton.
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   3. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or
      guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the
      innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.
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   4. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or
      silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. --Chaucer. Shak.

   Syn: Harmlessness; innocuousness; blamelessness; purity;
        sinlessness; guiltlessness.
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INNOCENCE, The absence of guilt. 
     2. The law presumes in favor of innocence, even against another 
presumption of law: for example, when a woman marries a second husband 
within the space of twelve months after her husband had left the country, 
the presumption of innocence preponderates over the presumption of the 
continuance of life. 2 B. & A. 386 3 Stark. Ev. 1249. An exception to this 
rule respecting the presumption of innocence has been made in the case of 
the publication of a libel, the principal being presumed to have authorized 
the sale, when a libel is sold by his agent in his usual place of doing 
business. 1 Russ. on Cr. 341; 10 Johns. R. 443; Bull. N. P. 6; Greenl. Ev. 
Sec. 36. See 4 Nev. & M. 341; 2 Ad. & Ell. 540; 5 Barn. & Ad. 86; 1 Stark. 
N. P. C. 21; 2 Nov. & M. 219. 
    

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "innocence":
      agnosticism, artlessness, benignancy, benignity, blankmindedness,
      blotlessness, bluffness, bluntness, callowness, candor, chastity,
      childlikeness, cleanliness, cleanness, directness,
      empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, guilelessness,
      guiltlessness, harmlessness, hiatus of learning, honor,
      hurtlessness, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immaculacy,
      immaculateness, inanity, inexperience, ingenuousness,
      innocuousness, inoffensiveness, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap,
      lack of information, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nescience,
      obscurantism, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, plainness,
      purity, rawness, sexual innocence, simpleheartedness,
      simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity,
      single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart,
      snowiness, spotlessness, stainlessness, tabula rasa, taintlessness,
      trustfulness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness,
      unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness,
      unfamiliarity, unguardedness, uninjuriousness, unintelligence,
      unknowing, unknowingness, unobnoxiousness, unripeness,
      unsoiledness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unspottedness,
      unstainedness, unsulliedness, unsuspiciousness, untaintedness,
      unwariness, vacuity, vacuousness, virtue, virtuousness,
      whiteness