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nocent

[noh-suhnt] / ˈnoʊ sənt /






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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by James Godkin

This leads to the remark that all parasitic growths are not nocent.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

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

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli


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