Definitions for innocents

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innocents in·no·cent

Spelling: [in-uh-suh nt]

IPA: /ˈɪn ə sənt/

Innocents is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in innocents (ceinnnost).

Definitions for innocents

noun

1. an innocent person.
2. a young child.
3. a guileless person.
4. a simpleton or idiot.
5. Usually, innocents. (used with a singular verb) bluet (def 1).

adjective

1. free from moral wrong; without sin; pure:
2. free from legal or specific wrong; guiltless:
3. not involving evil intent or motive:
4. not causing physical or moral injury; harmless:
5. devoid (usually followed by of):
6. having or showing the simplicity or naiveté of an unworldly person; guileless; ingenuous.
7. uninformed or unaware; ignorant.

Origin of innocents

1150-1200; Middle English Latin innocent- (stem of innocēns) harmless, equivalent to in- in-³ + nocēns present participle of nocēre to harm; see Examples for innocents

Kathy and Anja both always looked out for the innocents—and for reporters new to a beat, like me when I joined the AP.

Never mind the slaughter of innocents—this crew loves each other to pieces, bodies of dead children be damned.

There are no innocents in Bangladeshi politics and every politician is tainted by accusations of corruption.

Marjolin had been found in a heap of cabbages at the Market of the innocents.

The innocents abroad, young man,Are frightened by you twain.

There was a slaughter of the innocents last month—that is, if they ever reached you.

At every turn, they described their son as a faithful follower who had dedicated his life to easing the suffering of innocents.

I was watching the slaughter of the innocents on the tennis-court.

If this was how Lydia and Madame Beattie spent their hours of talk, let them, the innocents.

The industry already had the blood of innocents on its hands.