#946.  Innocence. —­ N. innocence; guiltlessness &c. adj.;
incorruption, impeccability.
     clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat][Vergil].
     innocent, lamb, dove. 
     V. be innocent &c. adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa
[Lat][Horace].
     acquit &c. 970; exculpate &c. (vindicate) 937. 
     Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty[obs3]; guiltless, faultless,
sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia[Lat]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c. 939; unhardened[obs3], Saturnian; Arcadian &c. (artless) 703[obs3].
     inculpable, unculpable[obs3]; unblamed, unblamable[obs3]; blameless,
unfallen[obs3], inerrable[obs3], above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable[obs3], irreprehensible[obs3]; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable[obs3]; venial &c. 937.
     harmless; inoffensive, innoxious[obs3], innocuous; dove-like, lamb-
like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; “more sinned against than sinning” [Lear].
     virtuous &c. 944; unreproved[obs3], unimpeached, unreproached[obs3]. 
     Adv. innocently &c. adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience,
with a safe conscience. 
     Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Lat][obs3][Horace].

     #947.  Guilt. —­ N. guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality,
criminousness[obs3]; deviation from rectitude &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; sinfulness &c. (vice) 945.
     misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin,
error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas[Fr], peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break |![U.S.], capital crime, delictum[Lat].
     offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction,
malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony.
     enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; “deed without a
name” [Macbeth].
     corpus delicti. 
     Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable[obs3], in fault, at fault,
censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable[obs3]; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.  Adv. in flagrante delicto[Lat]; red-handed, in the very act, with one’s hand in the cookie jar. 
     Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat][Seneca]; culpam paena premit
comes [Lat][Horace]; “O would the deed were good!” [Richard II]; “responsibility prevents crimes” se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat][Burke;][Juvenal]; “so many laws argues so many sins” [Paradise Lost]. —­ p. 331 —­

     #948.  Good Man. —­ N. good man, honest man, worthy.
     good woman, perfect lady, Madonna.
     model, paragon &c. (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine,
demigod, seraph, angel; innocent &c. 946; saint &c. (piety) 987; benefactor &c. 912; philanthropist &c.