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- (noun): One who is innocent, especially a young child.
- (noun): A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
- (adjective): Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
- (adjective): Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
- (adjective): Naive; artless.
- (adjective): (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
- (adjective): (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
- (adjective): (with of) Lacking (something).
- (adjective): Lawful; permitted.
- (adjective): Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
- The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
- an innocent trade
- innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation