innocency
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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
So did a strange feeling of national "innocency."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bacon, supported by many others, protested its innocency.
From The Story of Bacon's Rebellion by Stanard, Mary Newton
This was far more like the innocency of the dove, but this new prudence resembles more wisdom of the serpent.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander
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 Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle
"And what I have foolishly taken for the advances of experience have been innocencies!"
From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther
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