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innocently, adv.|ˈɪnəsəntlɪ|
[f. innocent a. + -ly2.]
In an innocent manner; without doing, having done, or intending, harm; guiltlessly, harmlessly, guilelessly, artlessly. See the adj.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxii. 145 Liffand innocently in lewtee and in luffe and charitee. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 79 Whan they haue..suffred..many obieccions & iniuryes innocently for the loue of Jesu. 1555Eden Decades 8 Men lyued simplye & innocentlye without inforcement of lawes. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iv. (1626) 83 Where the innocently wretched maid Was for her mothers proud impietie..sentenced to die. 1711Steele Spect. No. 157 ⁋6 Let him go before he has innocently suffered. 1712Addison ibid. No. 383 ⁋1 The Child who went to the Door answered very Innocently, that he did not Lodge there. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. ix. 186 What was meant innocently..is taken for a conspiracy, a rebellion. 1885Manch. Exam. 5 May 5/2 They might spend their time less innocently.
b. fig. Spotlessly. (Cf. innocent a. 1 b.)
1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. i. xv. 36 The Parian [marble] is the most innocently white. |