Associations to the word «Nolo»

Wiktionary

NOLO CONTENDERE, noun. (legal) No contest. The designation of a plea that means that the defendant does not admit the charge, but has no means to dispute it that the court will recognize.
NOLO EPISCOPARI, interjection. Expressing a facetiously modest refusal of something which is actually desired.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates