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单词 innocence
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innocence

noun
/ˈɪnəsns/
/ˈɪnəsns/
[uncountable]Idioms
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  1. the fact of not being guilty of a crime, etc.
    • She protested her innocence (= said repeatedly that she was innocent).
    • This new evidence will prove their innocence.
    opposite guilt
    Extra Examples
    • Hayes has protested his innocence throughout the case.
    • He has maintained his innocence throughout the trial.
    • I asked her the question in all innocence. I didn't know it was going to upset her.
    • She claimed total innocence of all charges.
    • She replied to her father's accusations in tones of injured innocence.
    • She was convinced of her son's innocence.
    • The prisoners passionately proclaimed their innocence in front of the jury.
    • The solicitors were convinced of his innocence and urged him to appeal the conviction.
    Topics Law and justicec1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • total
    verb + innocence
    • declare
    • proclaim
    • profess
    phrases
    • in all innocence
    • the presumption of innocence
    See full entry
  2. lack of knowledge and experience of the world, especially of evil or unpleasant things
    • Children lose their innocence as they grow older.
    • In her innocence, she agreed to go back with him to his house.
    Extra Examples
    • There were claims that the whole nation had somehow lost its innocence.
    • There was a touching innocence about the child's request.
    • The story is about a child's loss of innocence.
    • In her innocence, she had stopped to help a girl who seemed to be injured.
    • I felt I had returned to a state of almost child-like innocence.
    • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.
    • There is an innocence about the story.
    • She had taken advantage of his innocence.
    • In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss vacuum cleaners.
    • In her innocence, she had allowed the man into her house.
    • He had lost the innocence of childhood.
    • He grinned with apparent innocence.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • childish
    • childlike
    • wide-eyed
    verb + innocence
    • lose
    • retain
    • take advantage of
    preposition
    • in your innocence
    • with… innocence
    • innocence  about
    phrases
    • an air of innocence
    • a look of innocence
    • the picture of innocence
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  3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin innocentia, from innocent- ‘not harming’ (based on nocere ‘injure’).
Idioms
in all innocence
  1. without knowing that something is likely to offend or upset somebody
    • I asked if she was married in all innocence.
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