This week’s theme
Forgotten positives

This week’s words
capacitate
eptitude
mediate
maculate
nocent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(NOH-suhnt)

MEANING:

adjective
1. Harmful.
2. Guilty.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin nocens (injurious, guilty), present participle of nocere (to harm). Earliest documented use: 1447.

USAGE:

“Sadly, I am even used to threatening emails. In my line of work, they are an occupational hazard and nearly always these are the usual nocent missives about how I have mightily offended the GOP or Islam or God.”
Philip Kerr; Prayer: A Novel; Penguin; 2015.

See more usage examples of nocent in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: