jurisprudent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
noun
Someone skilled in law or jurisprudence.
Example Sentences
- "For if belligerent rights were worthy to be gravely discussed by conferences and commissions of very jurisprudent gentlemen, why shall not expectorant rights — never until now discussed or settled, but existing only in the great common or unwritten law of usage—be once for all clearly confirmed, settled, and defined?"
- "'Adieu!' he says, 'I am going to my tutor's lectures on one Puffendorf, a very jurisprudent author as you shall read on a summer's day.'"
- "By this, I wanted to point out how subtle and conscientious our judgment of jurisprudent ideas should be, and what kind of historic approach we have to cherish towards them."
- "The jurisprudent psychology analysis is designed to ensure that the results of clinical and forensic interventions for each individual comport with the law's emphasis on principles of justice and fairness."
- "It is much more prudent and therefore also much more jurisprudent to endeavour to understand what really happens in law and legal theory."
- "“And you can't be drinking alcohol on the community stairs, either,” he added, very jurisprudent."
Etymology
Compare French jurisprudent.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.