nocent

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Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Salvo cuique sua h�reditas est, nulli nisi nocenti magistratus nocent.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

While, shee sitts reading by the Glow-wormes light, Or rotten wood, o're which the worme hath crept, The banefull scedule of her nocent charmes.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

Virgil thought the odour exhaled by the Juniper tree noxious, and he speaks of the Juniperis gravis umbra:—     "Surgamus! solet esse gravis cantantibus umbra;     Juniperis gravis umbra; nocent et frugibus umbrae."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

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