NOUN
  1. an innocent quality or thing or act
    the innocencies of childhood
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How To Use innocency In A Sentence

  • Habitual preparation: "I will wash my hands in innocency; I will carefully watch against all sin, and keep my conscience pure from those dead works which defile it and forbid my drawing nigh to God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • It is the violation of a divine institution in innocency, by the indulgence of one of the basest lusts of man in his degeneracy. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • In our present state marriage is necessary; it was instituted in innocency; whatever intermission or neglect there has been of other institutions, this was never laid aside, nor will be till the end of time. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • We must now enter by the door of faith (Acts xiv. 27), since the door of innocency is shut against us, and that pass become unpassable, Gen. iii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • And if it be objected, What use will they be of to glorified saints? we may suppose them of as much use as they were to Adam in innocency; and if it be only to illustrate the wisdom, power, and goodness of their Creator, that is enough. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • He quite lost himself to this world, and so had his mind entirely free for converse with divine things; as Adam in innocency, when the deep sleep fell upon him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Adam, in innocency, had peace with God immediately; there needed no such mediator. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Adam, in innocency, was to dress the garden, and to keep it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • With this comes what is known as the casting of the wings, the enchaining in body: the soul has lost that innocency of conducting the higher which it knew when it stood with the All-Soul, that earlier state to which all its interest would bid it hasten back. The Six Enneads.
  • In the latter expression the word for "hand," kaph, signifies "the palm of the hand," consequently, not even hidden uncleanness within the hand, -- therefore complete innocency. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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