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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

innocente

Native Script:Innocente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in-no-ˈtʃɛn-te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Guiltless/ˈɡɪlt.ləs/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #9500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il giudice ha stabilito che era innocente."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Innocent; free from guilt or wrongdoing.

    "The jury declared the young defendant entirely guiltless of all charges."
  2. 2

    Lacking awareness or experience of sin or evil.

    "She maintained a guiltless approach to life, untouched by cynicism."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'gylt', meaning crime, sin, or fault, combined with the suffix '-lēas', meaning lacking or free from. Over the centuries, it evolved to describe someone entirely free from guilt, wrongdoing, or moral responsibility for a specific offense.

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