Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.
He didn't mean anything by it; it was an innocent mistake.
One who is innocent, especially a young child.
The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
A surname.
From Middle English innocent, from Old French innocent, inocent, borrowed from Latin innocēns (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). By surface ...
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