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nocent, a. and n. Now rare.|ˈnəʊsənt|
[ad. L. nocent-, nocens, pres. pple. of nocēre to hurt.]
A. adj.
1. Harmful, injurious, hurtful.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 321 Infecte with venom nocent. 1568G. Skeyne The Pest A iij, The maist nocent Sterres to mankynd. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 4 b, Nothinge nocente or daungerous to the lyfe of the patient. 1618Baret Horsem. i. 98 Though many things are now become nocent and hurtfull to man, which at the first was..seruiceable to him. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 186 Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, Not nocent yet. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 26 Whilst the warm limbec draws Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. 1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) II. 9 A kind of Sheep only rendered terrible by their outside Apparatus, but not very nocent or hurtful.
Comb.1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. 90 Some can dispence with one of the three Grand Nocent-innocent ceremonies, some with another, some with neither.
2. Guilty; criminal.
a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 48 He is not innocent, whom the king judgeth nocent. 1618Stukeley Petit. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 390 He was..uncapable of another trial, by which he might have been found as nocent as before. 1640Habington Edw. IV, 227 Publique mischiefes seldome happen, but that the Prince, though not actually nocent, is in some degree guiltie. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 340 This manner of suffering was..unworthy of a freeman, however nocent and guilty. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 168 Fed with her innocent his nocent fire.
b. absol. as sing. or plural.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 412 But now drewe on the time, the Innocent must perishe with the Nocent, and the vngiltie with the giltie. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 137 Many an innocent with the nocent died. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xxv. (1739) 43 These twelve were to be sworn, neither to condemn the Innocent, nor acquit the Nocent. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. §19. 877 The innocent and the nocent, the Pious and the Impious.
B. n. A guilty person.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 234 He wold me Do forsakyn to ben an innocent That he me myht makyn a nocent. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV (1809) 19 That an Innocent with a Nocent, a man ungilty with a gilty, was pondered in an egall balaunce. 1606Proc. agst. Late Traitors 128 Taking away some Innocents with many Nocents. 1654tr. Martini's Conq. China 201 Involving in the Slaughter as well the innocents as the nocents. c1685Lett. to Jas. II, in N. & Q. 6th Ser. (1882) V. 361/2 To Kil al that came in their way without discriminating nocents from Innocents.
Hence ˈnocently adv. rare—1.
1646J. Cooke Vind. Law 21 Hadst thou rather thy husband should dye nocently than innocently. |