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NOUN
  1. an innocent quality or thing or act
    the innocencies of childhood

How To Use innocency In A Sentence

  • In the latter expression the word for "hand," kaph, signifies "the palm of the hand," consequently, not even hidden uncleanness within the hand, -- therefore complete innocency. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
  • Every coin has two sides, and I think the presumption of innocency is one of the building stones of justice in a democratic land. AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder. « The Paradigm Shift
  • They are to bear the vessels of the Lord, are entrusted to keep the ordinances of God pure and entire; it is a good thing that is committed to them, and they ought to be clean, to wash their hands in innocency and so to compass God's altars and carry his vessels, and keep themselves pure. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
  • She paused a moment, before she emerged from the shade, to gaze upon the happy group before her — on the complacency and ease of healthy age, depictured on the countenance of La Voisin; the maternal tenderness of Agnes, as she looked upon her children, and the innocency of infantine pleasures, reflected in their smiles. The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Daniel's accusers, now that his innocency is cleared, and Heaven itself has become his compurgator, have the same punishment inflicted upon them which they designed against him, according to the law of retaliation made against false accusers, Deut. xix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Azure or blue, the colour of the fesse, is said to be in heraldry the symbol of a godly disposition, and of a heavenly mind; gules, or red, the colour of the bends or bendlets, is in heraldry the symbol of strength and courage; and argent, or silver, the metal of the plates, the symbol of innocency, and love.
  • Eugenia too, caught by his eccentricity, was powerfully impelled to watch and admire him; and not the less, in the unenvying innocency of her heart, for his evident predilection in favour of her cousin. Camilla
  • Habitual preparation: "I will wash my hands in innocency; I will carefully watch against all sin, and keep my conscience pure from those dead works which defile it and forbid my drawing nigh to God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • With this comes what is known as the casting of the wings, the enchaining in body: the soul has lost that innocency of conducting the higher which it knew when it stood with the All-Soul, that earlier state to which all its interest would bid it hasten back. The Six Enneads.
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