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NOUN:
  1. The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, as:
    1. Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.
    2. Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense.
    3. Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness.
    4. Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.
    5. Lack of knowledge or understanding; ignorance.
    6. Freedom from harmfulness; inoffensiveness.
  2. One that is innocent.
  3. Botany See blue-eyed Mary.



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