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nocent

adj
/ˈnəʊ.sənt/UK/ˈnoʊ.sənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.

  1. derived from nocens
  2. inherited from nocent

Definitions

  1. Causing injury

    Causing injury; harmful.

  2. guilty

    guilty; not innocent

    • Nocent, not innocent he is, that seeketh to deface, By word the thing, that he by deed hat taught men to imbrace; Which being now a Bishop old, doth study to destroy The thing, which he a young man once did covet to injoy.
    • He is not innocent, whom the kinge iudgeth nocent.

  3. A guilty person.

    • […] there is no reason that the innocents and nocents sufferings should be alike, for then punishments would not be so effectuall to terrifie others, nor to give future security to innocence.
    • […] no nocent is absolved by the verdict of himself.

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Derived

nocently

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nocent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA