Nativity vs Innocent - What's the difference?
nativity | innocent |
(also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
(Christianity) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus; Christmas Day.
(astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 313:
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
* 1606 , , IV. iii. 16:
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 nouns the difference between nativity and innocent
is that nativity is (christianity) the birth of jesus as described in the gospels of matthew and luke while innocent is those who are innocent; young children.As an adjective innocent is
free from guilt, sin, or immorality.nativity
English
Noun
(nativities)- Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and ths to arrive at a more exact astrology.
Derived terms
* nativity play * Nativity SceneSee also
* calvaryinnocent
English
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.
