innocency

[ in-uh-suhn-see ]

noun

, plural in·no·cen·cies.

1. innocence ( defs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of innocency¹

1325–75; Middle English; variant of innocence; -ency

Example Sentences

Boys and girls grow up amidst surroundings which soon soil their souls; the “innocency of childhood,” so dear to the hearts of English parents, is unknown in a Moslem hareem.

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We are then with Him in Paradise, in that state of innocency in which Adam was before he was driven out of the Garden of Eden.

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Accused of witchcraft, she declared, "I am innocent, and God will clear my innocency."

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On his return from this trip Balboa was arrested by Pedrarias on a trumped-up charge of treason, and in the forty-second year of his life was beheaded, while declaring his entire innocency of all treachery.

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Mr. Fenn, with some others, presented a long letter to the Queen in vindication of their own innocency; but we have not discovered how long they remained in prison after that period.

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