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Innocent vs Emmanuel - What's the difference?

innocent | emmanuel |

As an adjective innocent

is free from guilt, sin, or immorality.

As a noun innocent

is those who are innocent; young children.

As a proper noun emmanuel is

immanuel (biblical figure whose birth is foretold).

innocent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
  • * 1606 , , IV. iii. 16:
    • to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
  • Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  • Naive; artless.
  • * 1600 , , V. ii. 37:
    • I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;
  • (obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
    • an innocent medicine or remedy
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The spear / Sung innocent , and spent its force in air.
  • Having no knowledge (of something).
  • Lacking (something).
  • Lawful; permitted.
    • an innocent trade
  • Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
    • innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation

    Synonyms

    * (free from blame or guilt) sackless * (free from sin) pure, untainted * See also

    Antonyms

    * (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act) guilty, nocent

    Related terms

    * innocence * innocently * innocuous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Those who are innocent; young children.
    • The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
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    emmanuel

    English

    Proper noun

    (Emmanuels)
  • Immanuel (Biblical figure whose birth is foretold).
  • *
    • Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel , which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • # (Christianity) Immanuel .
  • of Biblical origin.
  • * ,Scene IV:
    • Cade''. What is thy name? / ''Clerk''. Emmanuel . / ''Dick . They use to write it on the top of letters. 'Twill go hard with you.
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
    • Some call their sons Emmanuel : this is too bold. The name is proper to Christ, therefore not to be communicated to any creature.