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nocent

[noh-suhnt]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Rare.

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Origin of nocent¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin nocent-, stem of nocēns, present participle of nocēre “to harm, injure”; -ent

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Light stripes may suffice for quelling the less nocent dunces.

"It will clearly appear," he said, "where the guilt will lie if innocent persons should come to suffer with the nocent."

He divides his treatise into "bad and nocent books; bad books but not nocent; books not bad, but nocent; books neither bad nor nocent."

The judges, who were Englishmen, declared in their first session that 168 were innocent to 19 nocent.

All plants, phanerogams or cryptogams, can be divided into nocent or innocent, etc., etc.

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