• Nocency

    Origin

    From , from noc?ns ("harmful, guilty").

    Full definition of nocency

    Noun

    nocency

    (uncountable)
    1. (obsolete) Guilt; transgression.
      • 1656, w, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, And of Her Son and Succe??or, James The Sixth, King of Scotland; ... Chapter The Reign and Death of King James, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the Fir?t, &c.
      • 1734, w, Reports of Cases in Equity, Argued and Decreed in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, Chiefly in the Reign of King George I Chapter Devit, Le??ee of Cowper, ver?us the College of Dublin, in Ejectment
      • 1757, Walter Harris, Fiction unmasked; or, an answer to a Dialogue lately publi?hed by a Popi?h Phy?ician, and pretended to have passed between a Di??enter and a Member of the Church of Ireland; ...

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