innocently
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪnəsəntli/
Adverb
innocently (comparative more innocently, superlative most innocently)
- In an innocent manner.
- 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:
- [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
Derived terms
Translations
in an innocent manner
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “innocently”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “innocently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.