無む実じつ

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

innocence; guiltlessness; false accusation

Common in legal, news, and everyday contexts for not having committed an alleged crime or wrong. Often appears in 無実を訴える, 無実が証明される, and 無実の罪, where it can imply a false charge.

• 彼かれは最さい後ごまで無む実じつを訴うったえた。

  He insisted on his innocence to the end.

• 新あたらしい証しょう拠こで彼かの女じょの無む実じつが証しょう明めいされた。

  The new evidence proved her innocence.

• 彼かれは無む実じつの罪つみで逮たい捕ほされた。

  He was arrested on a false charge.

noun

absence of fact; lack of substance; insubstantiality

A much less common abstract use meaning that something has no factual basis or no real substance. In modern Japanese this is usually encountered in explanatory or literary contexts rather than ordinary conversation.

• この文ぶん脈みゃくの無む実じつは、事じ実じつそのものが存そん在ざいしないことを指さしている。

  In this context, 無実 refers to the absence of the fact itself.

noun

insincerity; dishonesty

Archaic noun use for lack of sincerity or honesty. This is not the normal modern meaning, so contemporary readers are more likely to understand 無実 as 'innocence' unless the older sense is explicitly discussed.

• 古ふるい文ぶん章しょうでは、無む実じつが不ふ誠せい実じつや偽いつわりを意い味みすることがある。

  In old writing, 無実 can mean insincerity or falsehood.