#946. Innocence. -- N. innocence; guiltlessness &c. adj.; incorruption, impeccability.
clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat][Vergil].
innocent, lamb, dove.
V. be innocent &c. adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Lat][Horace].
acquit &c. 970; exculpate &c. (vindicate) 937.
Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty[obs]; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia[Lat]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c. 939; unhardened[obs], Saturnian; Arcadian &c. (artless) 703[obs].
inculpable, unculpable[obs]; unblamed, unblamable[obs]; blameless, unfallen[obs], inerrable[obs], above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable[obs], irreprehensible[obs]; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable[obs]; venial &c. 937.
harmless; inoffensive, innoxious[obs], 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 &c. 944; unreproved[obs], unimpeached, unreproached[obs].
Adv. innocently &c. adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience.
Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Lat][obs][Horace].