Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN'NO-CENT
IN'NO-CENCE, or IN'NO-CEN-CYIN'NO-CENT
IN'NO-CENT, a. [Fr. from L. innocens.]
- Properly, not noxious; not producing injury; free from qualities that can injure; harmless; innoxious; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
- Free from guilt; not having done wrong or violated any law; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. In this general sense, no human being that is a moral agent, can be innocent. It is followed by of.
- Free from the guilt of a particular crime or evil action; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged in the indictment.
- Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
- Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. Kent.
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