Definition of "innocency" [in•no•cen•cy]

• Innocence. (noun)
• An innocent quality or action. (noun)

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• "Every coin has two sides, and I think the presumption of innocency is one of the building stones of justice in a democratic land."
• "Adam, in innocency, was to dress the garden, and to keep it."
• "It is the violation of a divine institution in innocency, by the indulgence of one of the basest lusts of man in his degeneracy."