Meaning of nocence | Babel Free

Definitions

Guilt; transgression.

obsolete, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The iniquities of theſe dayes are not aſhamed to ſhew their faces; but vvalke the ſtreets without feare of a Serieant, The ſinnes of the Citie are as pert and apert as the ſonnes of the Citie. I would Iniquitie was not bolder then Honeſtie; or that Innocence might ſpeed no worſe then Nocence.”

“For this Reaſon you unworthily detract from me, reviling me with taunting language, without any further ſcrutiny into matter⟳ of Fact; which I must court or urge⟳ you to, that I may cleer my ſelf, and certifie who is illiterate (as to the knowledge of things) conducible to our better State (for that's the principal end⟳ of Language) or who of us is the pretender to the Art of Physick or Chymistry, that ingenious men may underſtand the meaning of those terms, which you (like⟳ a cunning Gipſie, hoping thereby to ſuggest to the Reader, that no matter⟳ of Moment is contained in the whole Tenour of my words) call⟳ Canting: The Efficacie or Inefficacie, the Innocence or Nocence of the Stom. Esse. alias, ſtiled by you Pepper-drops, which you maliciously, ignorantly vilifie, to gratifie the Apothecaries, and their poor-ſpirited Doctors, who are forced in this Exigence to truckle, to cloſe in, and to carry⟳ fair with thoſe whom I am certain they cordially hate⟳.”

“Sunday, Mamma, the Bride and Bridegroom, I told you, return'd to the Wells. – Monday Evening appeared at the Rooms in Splendor. Mrs. Macnamara, in all the nocence of a white-and-ſilver-full-trimm'd-French-ſack, her Hair ſo dreſſed and powdered with Jewels to the laſt Degree of Taſte, […]”

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