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What is the noun for innocence?

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innocency
  1. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence; the state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
  2. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence, simplicity, lack of deceit or guile.
  3. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence, harmlessness.
  4. (archaic) An innocence; an innocent idea or thing.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.”
      “He appeared much hardened, and pleaded much on his innocency.”
      “Then indeed are our clothes a remembrancer of our lost innocency.”
innocence
  1. Absence of responsibility for a crime.
  2. Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
  3. (obsolete) Imbecility; mental deficiency.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In the role of defendant, desperate to prove his innocence, Sam began to spin out of control.”
      “Her devotion is as unchanging as her purity and innocence are absolute.”
      “According to the ideology, in its innocence and righteousness, the United States of America was a new Eden, a garden of progress and peace.”
innocentness
  1. Quality of being innocent.
innocent
  1. Those who are innocent; young children.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was but a young innocent, who could barely distinguish right from wrong.”
innocences
innocencies
innocents
  1. plural of innocent
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In this instance, everyone had an aesthetic opinion, as if aesthetics had anything to do with the sacrificial slaughter of 6,000 innocents.”
      “You and the babe are no innocents, and you well know that it is madness for you to expect any shelter from us.”
      “Worst of all, it seeps into the children at a young age, turning them from innocents into fanatics.”
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