nocency
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin nocēntia (“guilt, transgression”), from nocēns (“harmful, guilty”).
Noun
[edit]nocency (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Guilt; transgression.
- 1656, William Sanderson, “The Reign and Death of King James, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the Firſt, &c.”, in A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, And of Her Son and Succeſſor, James The Sixth, King of Scotland; […] , London, page 524:
- Somhampton was beſt truſted in that, for he had been verſed in queſtions and anſwers, under the nocency of Eſſex Treaſon; […]
- 1734, Jeffrey Gilbert, “Devit, Leſſee of Cowper, verſus the College of Dublin, in Ejectment”, in Reports of Cases in Equity, Argued and Decreed in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, Chiefly in the Reign of King George I, […] E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for R. Goſling, page 247:
- Firſt, Becauſe the Commiſſioners had a Power to declare whether the Lands had been forfeited or not, […] then they would make no Declaration of the Nocency or Innocency of the Perſons holding the Lands, […]
- 1757, Walter Harris, Fiction unmasked; or, an answer to a Dialogue lately publiſhed by a Popiſh Phyſician, and pretended to have passed between a Diſſenter and a Member of the Church of Ireland; […] , Dublin: […] William Williamson, page 181:
- He inſiſted, that it was moſt agreeable to Law, as well as moſt equal for the Subject, that the Nocency or Innocency of the Iriſh ſhould be tried by the Common-Law, where every Perſon would meet with a fair Trial by Juries of their Neighbours; […]