- causing harm or injury; hurtful
- guilty or criminal
Origin of nocent
Late Middle English from Classical Latin nocens, present participle of nocere, to harm: see necro-nocent
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nocent
adjective
Causing injury; harmful.
Origin of nocent
Middle English nocent guilty from Latin nocēns nocent- present participle of nocēre to harm ; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
From Middle English nocent (“guilty"), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm")
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