loss of innocence
Example Sentences
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Perhaps, as with other technology, it brings a loss of innocence.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
There is only a loss of innocence, a summer of purgatory and the sad cynicism surrounding a man previously known in Japan as, kanpeki na hito.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024
For MJ, there is a lingering of guilt and shame because Brandi was robbed of what would have surely been happy memories, now tainted by a fundamental loss of innocence, all under her watch.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2024
More than the loss of innocence, it was the wanton destruction of innocence that most concerned him thematically.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
Consequently, the death with which he had been threatened must have been a moral death, loss of innocence and joy, experience of guilt and woe.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
