innocently
adv/ˈɪnəsəntli/
Etymology From innocent + -ly.
1
In an innocent manner.
- [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:
- Synonyms
- blamelessly, cleanly, guiltlessly, innocently, irreprehensibly, purely, sinlessly, unblameably, unblamefully
- Antonyms
- guiltily
- Derived terms
- innocently divorced, pseudo-innocently