nocent
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Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Walter W. Greg
This leads to the remark that all parasitic growths are not nocent.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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