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innocence, in botany: see madder madder, common name for the Rubiaceae, a family of chiefly tropical and subtropical trees, shrubs, and herbs, especially abundant in N South America. The family is important economically for several tropical crops, e.g. ..... Click the link for more information. . Innocence See also Inexperience, Naïveté. Inquisitiveness (See CURIOSITY.) Insanity (See MADNESS.) Adam and Eve naked in Eden; knew no shame. [O.T.: Genesis 2:25] Sanskrit name means sinless. [Hindu Myth.: Benét, 50] innocent children are lost in the wood and die. [Br. Lit.: Babes in the Wood, Walsh Classical, 42] Pilate’s guiltlessness signified by washing of hands. [N.T.: Matthew 27:24] friendly sailor; held in warm affection by crew. [Am. Lit.: Billy Budd] free of evil. [Br. Lit.: “Christabel” in Walsh Modern, 95]
with fairy godmother’s aid, poor maligned girl wins prince’s heart. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Cinderella] believes marriage to Pinkerton is real. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Westerman, 357] symbol of blamelessness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 173; Kunz, 328] naive, goodhearted captain rescues captive captain from mutineers. [Am. Lit.: Benito Cereno] blamelessness martyred through slander. [Br. Lit.: Othello] . Norwegian martyred in defense of guiltless woman. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 165] has instinct for goodness. [Children’s Lit.: Heidi] chaste wife unjustly suspected by Postumus of unfaithfulness. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Cymbeline] attribute of young woman; personification of guiltlessness. [Art: Hall, 161] female saloonkeeper in mining town; never been kissed. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Girl of the Golden West, Westerman, 360–361] in marrying former mistress of enemy. [Ger. Opera: d’Albert, Tief land, Westerman, 371–374] guileless, with unbounded goodness of heart. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] beautiful jungle girl, lover of birds and animals, knows neither evil nor guile. [Br. Lit.: Hudson Green Mansions in Magill I, 333] unjustly condemned for adultery; later acquitted. [Apocrypha: Daniel and Susanna] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| On the contrary, I declare, that to recommend goodness and innocence hath been my sincere endeavour in this history. In its artless consciousness of innocence the look was nothing less than sublime. Hetty's was a spring-tide beauty; it was the beauty of young frisking things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of innocence--the innocence of a young star- browed calf, for example, that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe steeplechase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the middle of a bog. |
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