innocence

The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, especially.

Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.

Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.

Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness.

Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.

One that is innocent.

A pretty American scrophulariaceous plant, Collinsia verna, the flowers of which have the lower lip blue and the upper purple or nearly white.

Harmlessness; innoxiousness: as, the innocence of a neutral article of diet in disease.

Freedom from moral wrong; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity; sinlessness; artlessness: as, the innocence of childhood; angelic innocence.

Freedom from legal or specific wrong; absence of particular guilt or taint; guiltlessness: as, the prisoner proved his innocence.