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nocent

"Guilty; criminal", Late Middle English; earliest use found in Osbern Bokenham (c1393–c1464), poet and Augustinian friar. From Middle French nocent, adjective and noun or its etymon classical Latin nocent-, nocēns injurious, guilty, guilty person, uses as adjective and noun of present participle of nocēre to hurt, injure. Compare Italian †nocente, adjective.