innocency

Meanings

nouninnocency (countable and uncountable, plural innocencies)

Synonym of innocence:
1. archaiccountableuncountableHarmlessness.
  That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients […]
  1646, Thomas Browne, chapter II, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 5
  Synonyms: innocence, innocuity
2. archaiccountableuncountableLack of deceit or guile; simplicity.
3. archaiccountableuncountableThe state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
  And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency.
  1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler
  1 more example
  The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt.
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  Synonyms: unguilt, blamelessness, cleanness, inculpability, innocence, guiltlessness, unguilt
archaiccountableAn innocent idea or thing; an innocence.
It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies, than with dark human passions, […]
1902, William James, “Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-mindedness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 80