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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Innocent \In"no*cent\, a. [F. innocent, L. innocens, -entis; pref. in- not + nocens, p. pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See {Noxious}.] 1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. [1913 Webster] The spear Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. [1913 Webster] To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. --Matt. xxvii. 4. [1913 Webster] The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. [1913 Webster] Innocent from the great transgression. --Ps. xix. 13. [1913 Webster] 4. Simple; artless; foolish. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade. [1913 Webster] 6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. [1913 Webster] {Innocent party} (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality. Syn: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Innocent \In"no*cent\, n. 1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] {Innocents' day} (Eccl.), Childermas day. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: innocent adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn: {innocent}, {guiltless}, {clean-handed}] [ant: {guilty}] 2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" [syn: {innocent}, {innocuous}] 3: free from sin [syn: {impeccant}, {innocent}, {sinless}] 4: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it" [syn: {innocent}, {ingenuous}] 5: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" [syn: {innocent(p)}, {unacquainted(p)}] 6: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: {barren}, {destitute}, {devoid}, {free}, {innocent}] 7: (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent weather" n 1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: {innocent}, {inexperienced person}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: innocent /inosɑ̃/ guiltless; innocent