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noun

• One who is innocent, especially a young child.

  Example: The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.

• A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.

adjective

• Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.

• Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.

• Naive; artless.

• (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.

• (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).

• (with of) Lacking (something).

• Lawful; permitted.

  Example: an innocent trade

• Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

  Example: innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation