VERB + INNOCENCE
- declare, proclaim
- The prisoners passionately proclaimed their innocence in front of the jury
- claim
- She claimed total innocence of all charges
- protest
- Hayes has protested his innocence throughout the case
- demonstrate, establish, prove
- be convinced of
- The solicitors were convinced of his innocence and urged him to appeal the conviction
PHRASES
- in all innocence
- I asked her the question in all innocence. I didn't know it was going to upset her
- the presumption of innocence
- (law)
ADJ
- childlike, wide-eyed
- lost
- injured
- She replied to her father's accusations in tones of injured innocence
- apparent
- mock
VERB + INNOCENCE
- lose
- He had lost the innocence of childhood
- retain
- take advantage of
- She had taken advantage of his innocence
PREP
- in your ~
- In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss vacuum cleaners
- with … ~
- He grinned with apparent innocence
- ~ about
- There is an innocence about the story
PHRASES
- an air of innocence
- There was a touching air of innocence about the boy
- a look of innocence, the picture of innocence
- 'You cheated!' 'I what?' asked David, the picture of innocence (= pretending to look innocent)
- a state of innocence
