| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blamelessness |
Synonyms: |
chastity, clean hands, clear conscience, guiltlessness, immaculateness, impeccability, incorruptibility, incorruption, inculpability, probity, purity, righteousness, sinlessness, stainlessness, uprightness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
badness, blame, corruption, evil, guilt, sin |
| Main Entry: | clean slate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | new start |
Synonyms: |
clean hands, clean sweep, clear conscience, fresh start, new beginning, square one, tabula rasa |
| Main Entry: | peace of mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental freedom |
Synonyms: |
bliss, calmness, cheer, clear conscience, comfort, composure, contentment, delight, ecstasy, elation, euphoria, exuberance, felicity, fulfillment, happiness, high spirits, joy, peacefulness, pleasure, quiet mind, satisfaction, serenity, soothingness, tranquility, well-being |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
faultless, above suspicion, arcadian, artless, blameless, bloodguiltless, blunt, candid, clear, direct, dove, frank, guileless, guiltless, harmless, harmless as doves, honest, immaculate, impeccant, inartificial, inculpable, indefectible, inerrable, ingenit, ingenuous, innocent, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, irreprehensible, irreproachable, irreprovable, lamb, native, natural, naïve, not guilty, open, pauciplicate, plain, pure, salvable, saturnian, simple, sincere, sinless, spotless, stainless, straightforward, unaffected, unblamable, unblemished, unculpable, undefiled, undesigning, unerring, unexceptionable, unflattering, unguilty, unhardened, unimpeachable, unimpeached, unobjectionable, unpoetical, unreproached, unreproved, unreserved, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstudied, untutored, venial, virtuous
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| Concept: | Innocence. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
innocence; guiltlessness; incorruption, impeccability., clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]., innocent, lamb, dove.
-verbs
be innocent; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Horace]., acquit; exculpate (vindicate).
-adjectives
innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian (artless)., inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial., harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]., virtuous; unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached.
-adverbs
innocently; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience.
-phrases
murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].
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Antonyms: |
guilt |
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