The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innocent \In"no*cent\, a. [F. innocent, L. innocens, -entis; pref. in- not + nocens, p. pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See Noxious.]
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Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
The spear Sung innocent, and spent its force in air.
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Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb.
--Shak.I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
--Matt. xxvii. 4.The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey.
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Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
Innocent from the great transgression.
--Ps. xix. 13. Simple; artless; foolish.
--Shak.Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
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Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.
Syn: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.
Usage examples of "innocent party".
But this seemed to be a frame, intended to implicate an innocent party.
Reaching in between the boys, he seized the cringing, whimpering dog, the only truly innocent party in this dispute.
He had already hinted that he had placed blame for the theft of the sapphire brooch on an innocent party.
Let's say he just waited until an innocent party came in to deposit a plain old innocent hundred-dollar note.
Half a second could easily be the difference between life and death in a combat situation-worse, not the death of one of their own, but of an innocent party, a hostage, the person whom they were sworn to protect and rescue.
What possible interest could these villains have in an innocent party like ours?
It would be just like him to focus suspicion on an innocent party in order to divert it from himself.
As it had been when he tried to strike at Niobe herself, he had been balked, but an innocent party had suffered.
Her first couple of remarks had been slightly wrong as responses of an innocent party.
It's a good bet that there will be nobody on that island we don't know about who's an innocent party, anyway.