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nocent

[ noh-suhnt ]

adjective

Rare.
  1. harmful; injurious:

    nocent chemical waste and other toxins.

  2. guilty; not innocent.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of nocent1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin nocent-, stem of ²Ô´Ç³¦Å§²Ô²õ, present participle of ²Ô´Ç³¦Å§°ù±ð “to harm, injureâ€; -ent
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Light stripes may suffice for quelling the less nocent dunces.

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

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

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

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

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