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an innocent quality or thing or act

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  • It is the violation of a divine institution in innocency, by the indulgence of one of the basest lusts of man in his degeneracy.
  • Every coin has two sides, and I think the presumption of innocency is one of the building stones of justice in a democratic land.
  • 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.
  • Some make it an allusion to the opening of Adam's side in innocency.
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