innocent : Idioms & Phrases


holy innocents' day

  • noun December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
    Holy Innocents' Day.
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innocent iii

  • noun Italian pope from 1198 to 1216 who instituted the Fourth Crusade and under whom papal intervention in European politics reached its height (1161-1216)
    Lotario di Segni.
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Innocent party

  • (Law), a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.
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innocent viii

  • noun Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
    Giovanni Battista Cibo.
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innocent xi

  • noun Italian pope from 1676 to 1689 whose papacy was marked by the struggle with Louis XIV of France over papal authority over French Catholics; known for saintliness and canonized in 1956 (1611-1689)
    Benedetto Odescalchi.
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innocent xii

  • noun Italian pope from 1691 to 1700 who abolished nepotism within the church hierarchy and was universally loved for his charity and piety
    Antonio Pignatelli.
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Innocents' day

  • noun December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
    Holy Innocents' Day.
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  • (Eccl.), Childermas day.
Webster 1913