innocence
nounThe state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, especially.
nounFreedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.
nounGuiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.
nounFreedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness.
nounLack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.
nounOne that is innocent.
nounA pretty American scrophulariaceous plant, Collinsia verna, the flowers of which have the lower lip blue and the upper purple or nearly white.
nounHarmlessness; innoxiousness: as, the innocence of a neutral article of diet in disease.
nounFreedom from moral wrong; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity; sinlessness; artlessness: as, the innocence of childhood; angelic innocence.
nounFreedom from legal or specific wrong; absence of particular guilt or taint; guiltlessness: as, the prisoner proved his innocence.