| 单词 | innocent blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinnocent blood a. Free from specific wrong or guilt; that has not committed the particular offence charged or in question; not deserving of the punishment or suffering inflicted; not guilty, guiltless, unoffending. innocent blood, the blood (or life) of the innocent. innocent party [party n. 6] , in matrimonial proceedings, the person adjudged to be innocent. Since the Divorce Reform Act 1969 the usage has been legally obsolete in England, since that Act abolished the concept of a matrimonial offence as a ground for divorce and substituted for it the concept of irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > as possession headOE lifeOE heart-blood?c1225 innocent blood1382 heart's-blood1562 fanny1936 ass1948 butt1964 arse1970 society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [adjective] > free from guilt unguiltyc893 sacklessa1000 freeOE unfakenOE guiltlessc1175 unguiltlessc1330 innocent1382 cleana1400 unsakeda1400 clearc1400 faultlessa1535 unfaulty1548 crimeless1568 untaxablea1610 innoxious1623 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > innocent party in matrimonial case innocent party1729 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xxvi. 9 Who shal stretche his hoond into the crist of the Lord, and shal be innocent? 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Psalms xciii[i]. 21 The innocent blod thei shul condempne. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 1 Ye shold do grete synne yf ye dyd put this Innocent and gyltles to deth. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xl I have synned betraynge the innocent bloud. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clviijv The bloudde of the Innocente man was with his dolorous death, recompensed. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 109 A Soveraign Prince, that putteth to death an Innocent Subject. 1670 A. Marvell Let. 28 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 318 The Lieutenancy..pick out Hays and Jekill, the innocentest of the whole Party, to shew their Power on. 1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. Divorce: In Divorces for Adultery, several Acts of Parliament have allowed the Innocent Party to marry again. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxvi. 286 Persons not lying under any sense of attainder were still innocent in the eye of the law. 1835 Tomlins's Law Dict. (ed. 4) I. at Divorce The commissioners appointed by Henry VIII. and Edward VI...recommend divorces à mensa et thoro to be abolished, and complete divorces to be allowed for adultery, desertion, bad treatment, &c., the innocent party to be allowed to marry again. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) I. ii. 117 While innocent blood was shedding under the forms of justice. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. vi. 41 The innocent began to breathe freely, and false accusers to tremble. 1948 J. H. S. Bossard Sociol. of Child Devel. xvi. 369 One principle usually observed is that custody goes to the so-called innocent party. 1958 Daily Mail 3 July 4/8 When are we going to hear the last of that time-worn phrase so beloved of newspaper columnists and the legal profession—‘innocent party’? 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law I. 67/2 The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857..created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes..which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery. < as lemmas |
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