as in innocence
the quality or state of being free from guilt or blame
let me be the first to declare my own innocency in the matter: I neither spread nor believed the malicious gossip
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Noun
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Skakel has maintained his innocence from the beginning.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025 -
Illinois children should not be robbed of their innocence.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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So that’s the purity, that’s the beauty of baseball.—
Alison Weinflash,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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Synthesizing a pencil-size sample in a robotic lab is far from producing tonnes of it at semiconductor purity or certifying it for aircraft use.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Innocency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocency. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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