innocency
Americannoun
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innocencies
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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
Your words cannot condemn me; my innocency is my defence.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
There are other evils of great magnitude, which strip off the mask of innocency from this frivolous and sinful amusement.
From A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing by John F. Mesick
Its author might sincerely protest his entire innocency of the radical designs imputed to him, but subsequent events have proved the keener insight of his opponents.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler
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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