innocency
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innocenciesEtymology
Origin of innocency
Example Sentences
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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
Com′purgator, one who testifies to the innocency or veracity of another.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
How was it possible that such a countenance could assume at wont a look of innocency that would deceive a lawyer, even against damning evidence, into a belief that he was a victim of circumstances?
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
Said he not unto me, She is my sister? 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.
From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Cooper, Robert
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