innocent in something—inexperienced and ignorant about smth.:
- How could such a consummate political survivor be portrayed as not simply innocent in the ways of the world, but so completely dependent?
innocent of something—
1. not guilty of smth. a person may be accused of:
- The prisoner denied that he had ever stolen any platina, and said he was innocent of the charge.
2. free from smth.; devoid of smth.:
- The tiny window was innocent of glass, and the northwesterly wind came in an icy stream through the aperture.