English

Noun

innocency ‎(plural innocencies)

1. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence; the state of being free from guilt or moral wrong.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.11:

     The verie names of Goodnesse and innocentie, are for this respect in some sort names of contempt.

2. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence, simplicity, lack of deceit or guile.
3. (uncountable, archaic) Innocence, harmlessness.
4. (archaic) An innocence; an innocent idea or thing.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p.69:

     It is to be hoped that we all have some friend […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions.

References

• innocency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913