What is the difference between acquitted and innocent?
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(acquit)
To declare or find not guilty; innocent.
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To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge.
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* 1837 , , “Lord Bacon” in The Edinburgh Review , July 1837
(obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for
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To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.
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* 1640 , , Tasso
* 1836 , , Orations I-382
* 1844 , ” in Essays: second series
(reflexive) To clear one’s self.
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(reflexive) To bear or conduct one’s self; to perform one’s part.
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* 1766 , , The vicar of Wakefield , xiv
(obsolete) To release, set free, rescue.
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Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
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Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
Naive; artless.
* 1600 , , V. ii. 37:
(obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
* Alexander Pope
Having no knowledge (of something).
Lacking (something).
Lawful; permitted.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
Those who are innocent; young children.
As a verb acquitted
is past tense of acquit.As an adjective innocent is
(pure, free from sin, untainted)Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.As a noun innocent is
those who are innocent; young children.acquitted
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Verb
(head)acquit
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Alternative forms
* acquite (archaic)Verb
- The jury acquitted the prisoner ''of'' the charge.
- His poverty, can you acquit him of that?
- If he [Bacon] was convicted, it was because it was impossible to acquit him without offering the grossest outrage to justice and common sense.
- Till life to death acquit my forced offence.
- ‘Aquyte him wel, for goddes love,’ quod he;
- Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment / That palme or cypress should his painees acquite .
- I admit it to be not so much the duty as the privilege of an American citizen to acquit this obligation to the memory of his fathers with discretion and generosity.
- We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
- Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!
- The soldier acquitted himself well in battle.
- The orator acquitted himself very poorly.
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- Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May. McNair also acquitted himself well after Rojo was injured sliding into a challenge with Martín Demichelis
- Though this was one of the first mercantile transactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myself with reputation.
- Till I have acquit your captive Knight.
- I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder box.
Synonyms
* absolve * clear * exonerate * innocent * exculpate * release * dischargeDerived terms
* acquital, acquittalAntonyms
* (to declare innocent) condemn, convictReferences
* * English irregular past participles ----innocent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
- I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;
- an innocent medicine or remedy
- The spear / Sung innocent , and spent its force in air.
- an innocent trade
- innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation
Synonyms
* (free from blame or guilt) sackless * (free from sin) pure, untainted * See alsoAntonyms
* (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act) guilty, nocentNoun
(en noun)- The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
