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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section IV. Moral Affections |
| 3. Moral Conditions |
| 946. Innocence. |
| NOUN: | INNOCENCE; guiltlessness &c. adj.; incorruption, impeccability, inerrability, inerrableness. clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]. INNOCENT, new-born babe; lamb, dove. |
| VERB: | BE INNOCENT &c. adj.; nil conscire sibi nullâ pallescere culpâ [Horace]. ACQUIT [See Acquittal]; exculpate (vindicate) [See Vindication]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | INNOCENT, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curiâ [L.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled [See Probity]; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian (artless) [See Artlessness]; paradisaic or paradisaical, paradisiac or paradisiacal. inculpable, unculpable [rare], unblamed, unblamable, blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion, irreproachable, irreprovable [rare], irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial [See Vindication]. virtuous [See Virtue]; unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached. HARMLESS, inoffensive, innoxious [obs.], innocuous; dovelike, lamblike; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as -a lamb, - the babe unborn; “more sinned against than sinning” [Lear]. |
| ADVERB: | INNOCENTLY &c. adj.; with clean hands; with a -clear, - safe- conscience. |
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