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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the quality of innocent naivete;
[syn: artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness]

2. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil;
[syn: purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness]

3. a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense;
- Example: "the trial established his innocence"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Innocence \In"no*cence\, n. [F. innocence, L. innocentia. See Innocent.] 1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness. [1913 Webster] 2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. [1913 Webster] The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown. [1913 Webster] 4. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. --Chaucer. Shak. Syn: Harmlessness; innocuousness; blamelessness; purity; sinlessness; guiltlessness. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

innocence n 1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness] 2: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil [syn: purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness] 3: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence" [ant: guilt, guiltiness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "innocence": agnosticism, artlessness, benignancy, benignity, blankmindedness, blotlessness, bluffness, bluntness, callowness, candor, chastity, childlikeness, cleanliness, cleanness, directness, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, harmlessness, hiatus of learning, honor, hurtlessness, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immaculacy, immaculateness, inanity, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, inoffensiveness, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nescience, obscurantism, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, purity, rawness, sexual innocence, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, snowiness, spotlessness, stainlessness, tabula rasa, taintlessness, trustfulness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, unfamiliarity, unguardedness, uninjuriousness, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unobnoxiousness, unripeness, unsoiledness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, unsuspiciousness, untaintedness, unwariness, vacuity, vacuousness, virtue, virtuousness, whiteness
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

INNOCENCE, The absence of guilt. 2. The law presumes in favor of innocence, even against another presumption of law: for example, when a woman marries a second husband within the space of twelve months after her husband had left the country, the presumption of innocence preponderates over the presumption of the continuance of life. 2 B. & A. 386 3 Stark. Ev. 1249. An exception to this rule respecting the presumption of innocence has been made in the case of the publication of a libel, the principal being presumed to have authorized the sale, when a libel is sold by his agent in his usual place of doing business. 1 Russ. on Cr. 341; 10 Johns. R. 443; Bull. N. P. 6; Greenl. Ev. Sec. 36. See 4 Nev. & M. 341; 2 Ad. & Ell. 540; 5 Barn. & Ad. 86; 1 Stark. N. P. C. 21; 2 Nov. & M. 219.