'Innocents' Day' definitions:
Definition of 'Innocents' Day'
(from WordNet)
noun
December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem [syn: Holy Innocents' Day, Innocents' Day]
Definition of 'Innocents' day'
From: GCIDE
- Innocent \In"no*cent\, n.
- 1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day. [1913 Webster]