nocent
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Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Disraeli, Isaac
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 Huxley, Thomas Henry
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