innocencyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəsənsi/

名詞

innocency (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 innocencies)

1. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence; the state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt.

   • 1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler

     And let the wilful or ignorant mistakers know, that they wound innocency.

2. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence, simplicity, lack of deceit or guile.
3. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence, harmlessness.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

     That Glass is poison, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant. Not onely from the innocency of its ingredients…

4. (archaic) An innocence; an innocent idea or thing.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p.69:

     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.

参照

• innocency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.