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Definition of innocent:
a person who lacks knowledge of evil
free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" free from sin lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it" not knowledgeable about something specified; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent weather" |