单词 | innocency |
释义 | innocencyn. Now somewhat rare or archaic. 1. = innocence n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun] unshathinessOE loathlessnessc1200 unloathnessa1225 innoyandnessa1340 innocence1340 innocency1357 innocentness1482 virginity1975 1357 Lay Folks Catech. 17 In the state of innocency [Lamb. MS. innocence]. c1440 Gesta Romanorum ii. xli. (1838) 405 Mankynde was fyrste [made] in the state of innocencie. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxi. 66 At the boord..it very well becommeth childrens innocencie to pray, and their elders to say Amen. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 76 Our people are not contayned in their primatiue innocency. a1800 J. Warton Sappho's Advice 27 In white and innocency drest, The plainest beauties were the best. 1838 R. W. Emerson Misc. (1855) 102 When in innocency, or when, by intellectual perception, he attains to say,—‘I love the Right!’ 2. = innocence n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun] > freedom from guilt unguiltiheada1470 unguiltiness1535 innocency1542 innocence1559 guiltlessness1571 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 Persons..complained on, shalbe admitted to purge and trie..their innocency by other witnesse. 1543 More's Hist. Richard III in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lxii Notsufferynge the lordes to speake, and to declare theyr innocencye. 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. a4v To declare their Innocency in this Plot. 1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 10 Ready..to surrender his person for the trial of his innocency. 1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart iii. i Lest I seem To have aught neglected in the full defence Of mine own innocency and honour. 3. = innocence n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence simplesse1372 simplenessa1382 innocencec1385 simplicitya1500 innocencya1513 ingenuousness1611 plain-heartedness1647 artlessness1663 naivety1708 naïveté1725 acacy1727 simple-heartedness1822 simple-mindedness1827 naiveness1854 onefoldness1887 authenticity1910 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [noun] simplenessa1382 innocencec1385 simplessec1391 simplicityc1450 innocencya1513 simplehead1543 greenness1548 insipidity1603 seeliness1642 niaiserie1657 silliness1736 simpletonism1825 simple-mindedness1827 simpletonianism1848 noodleness1931 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxi. f. xxxiv Uortiger thenne consyderynge the Innocency and myldnesse of the kyng cast in his mynde howe he myght be Kynge hym selfe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxliiij Suche was his childishe innocencie and feare..he was suche an ignoraunt soule, as knewe not what the affirmyng of an heresie was. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. H3 Ower innocency and your grete knoleagie makethe to seime of the liey the trueth. 4. = innocence n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm underingnessa1300 unnoyingnessa1500 unhurtfulness1549 harmlessness1596 safeness1607 inoffensiveness1641 innocuousness1644 innocency1665 innoxiousness1667 safety1689 undangerousness1817 innocence1828 dangerlessnessa1834 innocuity1855 uninjuriousness1860 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. v, in Occas. Refl. sig. F7v Good Thoughts..to be gather'd with as much Innocency and Pleasure..as Honey is gather'd by the industrious Bee. 1729 W. Law Serious Call iv. 54 His trade, as to him, loses all its innocency. 5. = innocence n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm > harmless thing innocency1727 the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence > person innocentc1386 innocencec1400 puppy dog1651 innocency1727 society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun] > person lambc1000 innocent13.. innocencec1400 innocency1827 1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 18 Babies, Play-Things, and other pretty Innocencies used of old. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 88 Helpless swaddled innocency. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1357 |
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