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Nocent

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no⋅cent

  [noh-suhnt]
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–adjective
1. harmful; injurious.
2. Archaic. guilty.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L nocent-, s. of nocēns, prp. of nocēre to do harm; see -ent
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no·cent   (nō'sənt)   
adj.  Causing injury; harmful.

[Middle English nocent, guilty, from Latin nocēns, nocent-, present participle of nocēre, to harm; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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