Innocence vs Pure - What's the difference?
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Absence of responsibility for a crime.
Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
* (1800-1859)
(senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
* Bible, v. 22
(label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
(label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
As a noun innocence
is absence of responsibility for a crime.As an adjective pure is
free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.As an adverb pure is
to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.innocence
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
Antonyms
* (absence of responsibility for a crime) guilt * (absence of ability to harm) harmfulnessSynonyms
* (lack of sensitive subjects) naivety * (absence of ability to harm) harmlessness * (freedom from guilt) unguilt, unguiltnesspure
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
- A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
- Keep thyself pure .
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
Synonyms
* perfect * innocent * See alsoAntonyms
* impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) appliedDerived terms
* pure finder * as pure as the driven snowAdverb
(en adverb)- You’re pure busy.