innocence

Definition

Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English innocence, from Old French innocence, inocence, from Latin innocentia. Doublet of innocency. Displaced native Old English unsċyld.

Example Sentences

• "Her attorney managed to convince the jury of her innocence."
• "In his innocence, he offered the stranger to bring the package to Paris, never suspecting it contained drugs."
• "Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all."

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