In'no-cence, n.

n. [Lat. innocentia, Fr. innocence, Pr. innocensia, Sp. inocencia, It. innocenza.]

1. The state of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful; innocuousness.
2. Freedom from a charge or imputation of crime or moral wrong; the state of being not chargeable with guilt or sin; purity of heart; harmlessness.

Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence. Milton. 3. The state of being without knowledge or the ordinary intellectual power; ignorance; imbecility.