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innocence

(Encyclopedia) innocence, in botany: see madder.

Brewer's: Innocent

(An). An idiot or born fool. (See Benet.) “An idiot, or one otherwise deficient in intellect, is called an innocent.” —Trench: On the Study of Words, lecture iii, p. 97. Source:…

Brewer's: Innocents

Feast of the Holy Innocents. The 28th December, to commemorate Herod's butchery of the children of Bethlehem under two years old, with the design of cutting off the infant Jesus (Matt. ii…

Brewer's: Golden Age

The best age; as the golden age of innocence, the golden age of literature. Chronologers divide the time between Creation and the birth of Christ into ages; Hesiod describes five, and Lord…

Brewer's: Massacre of the Innocents

(The), in parliamentary phraseology, means the withdrawal at the close of a session of the bills which time has not rendered it possible to consider and pass. The phrase was so used in The…

Poems: Songs of Innocence

by WilliamBlakeSongs Of ExperienceSongs of InnocenceContentsIntroductionThe ShepherdThe Echoing GreenThe LambThe Little Black BoyThe BlossomThe Chimney-SweeperThe Little Boy LostThe Little Boy…

The Celtic Twilight: The Golden Age

by W. B. Yeats Our Lady of the HillsA Remonstrance with Scotsmen f...The Golden Age A while ago I was in the train, and getting near Sligo. The last time I had been there something was…

Anne Bradstreet: Old Age

Old Age   What you have been, ev'n such have I before, And all you say, say I, and something more. Babe's innocence, Youth's wildness I have seen, And in perplexed Middle-age have been,…

White Horse, Vale of the

(Encyclopedia) White Horse, Vale of the, district (1991 pop. 109,200), Oxfordshire, S central England. The vale is the valley of the Ock River. Abingdon is the administrative seat. Surgical…

age of consent

(Encyclopedia) age of consent, the age at which, according to the law, persons are bound by their words and acts. There are different ages at which one acquires legal capacity to consent to marriage…