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(uncountable, archaic) Innocence; the state of being free from guilt or moral wrong. quotations
The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency.
1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler
(uncountable, archaic) Innocence, simplicity, lack of deceit or guile.
(uncountable, archaic) Innocence, harmlessness. quotations
That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients…
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5
(archaic) An innocence; an innocent idea or thing. quotations
It is to be hoped that we all have some friend […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions.
1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] , London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 69