nocent
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Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
While, shee sitts reading by the Glow-wormes light, Or rotten wood, o're which the worme hath crept, The banefull scedule of her nocent charmes.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
If the proportions of nocent and innocent were the same, an immense number of innocent persons were deprived of their property.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by James Godkin
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 Thomas Henry Huxley