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Properly, not noxious; not producing injury; free from qualities that can injure; harmless; innoxious; as an innocent medicine or remedy.

Free from guilt; not having done wrong or violated any law; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. In this general sense, no human being that is a moral agent, can be innocent. It is followed by of.

Free from the guilt of a particular crime or evil action; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged in the indictment.

Lawful; permitted; as an innocent trade.

Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.

One free from guilt or harm.

A natural; an idiot.