innocency

Noun

innocency (countable and uncountable, plural innocencies)

1. (archaic) Harmlessness.
   • That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients […]1646, Thomas Browne, chapter II, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 5

   Synonyms:

   innocence, innocuity

2. (archaic) Lack of deceit or guile; simplicity.
3. (archaic) The state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
   • The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
   • And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency.1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler

   Synonyms:

   unguilt, blamelessness, cleanness, inculpability, innocence, guiltlessness

4. (archaic, countable) An innocent idea or thing; an innocence.
   • It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies, than with dark human passions, […]1902, William James, “Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-mindedness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co....