/ˈɪnəsənt/
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Translation
Not guilty of doing anything wrong.
Word origin
From Latin innocens, meaning not harmful, from in- meaning not and nocere, to harm.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- innocens
Examples
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"Innocent" is the opposite of guilty.
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Being somewhere else proves she did not do it.
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Here it means the question meant no harm.
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