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no·cent    Audio Help   [noh-suhnt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.harmful; injurious.
2.Archaic. guilty.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < L nocent-, s. of nocéns, prp. of nocére to do harm; see -ent]
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no·cent    Audio Help   (nō'sənt)  Pronunciation Key 
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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nocent

adjective
having a tendency to cause harm 

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Nocent

No"cent\, a. [L. nocens, p. pr. of nocere to hurt. See Nuisance, Noxious.]

1. Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities. --I. Watts.

2. Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent. [Obs.] --Foxe.
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Nocent

No"cent\, n. A criminal. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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