nocent
Americanadjective
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harmful; injurious.
nocent chemical waste and other toxins.
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guilty; not innocent.
Etymology
Origin of nocent
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin nocent-, stem of nocēns, present participle of nocēre “to harm, injure”; see -ent
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Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It will clearly appear," he said, "where the guilt will lie if innocent persons should come to suffer with the nocent."
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
All plants, phanerogams or cryptogams, can be divided into nocent or innocent, etc., etc.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Among the many wise and weighty aphorisms of the Roman Bacon, few sound the realities of life more deeply than "Multa bona nostra nobis nocent."
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
This leads to the remark that all parasitic growths are not nocent.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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