This week’s theme
Back-formations

This week’s words
resurrect
penetralium
brindle
jurisprude
magniloquent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(JOOR-uhs-prood)

MEANING:

noun: One who flaunts legal knowledge or is excessively preoccupied with the nuances of law.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from jurisprudence (influenced by prude), from Latin jus (law, right) + prudentia (knowledge).

USAGE:

“I found myself seated next to Charlie Marks, the attorney. Or, really, it wants something grander -- jurisprude, perhaps. He is no mere working lawyer, but a scholar of the law, a theorist of the legislative and judicial processes.”
David R. Slavitt; The Cliff; LSU Press; 1994.

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