innocency
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innocencies
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So did a strange feeling of national "innocency."
From Time Magazine Archive
Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy?
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Fenn, with some others, presented a long letter to the Queen in vindication of their own innocency; but we have not discovered how long they remained in prison after that period.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
After a few weeks John sent for Carl to come over, and they popped corn and played dominos all the evening, and the innocency of their former childish companionship seemed restored.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
Compurgation, kom-pur-gā′shun, n. the custom, in Anglo-Saxon law, of permitting the accused to call in witnesses to prove his innocency, by joining their oaths to his: evidence in favour of the accused: vindication.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
My utter tremblings of delight are manna from the sky, And shining flower-like in the grass my innocencies lie.
From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
"And what I have foolishly taken for the advances of experience have been innocencies!"
From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
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