nocent
nocent · nocents
A guilty personA guilty person.
UK/ˈnəʊ.sənt/US/ˈnoʊ.sənt/
Meaning
1 senses(obsolete)A guilty person.
Origin
From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“tFrom Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: nocentsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
2 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.