mentes reae

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    plural of mens rea

    “The old conception of mens rea,” says Professor Sayer, “must be discarded, and in its place must be substituted the new conception of mentes reae.”

词源

First attested in 1932; from the Latin mentēs (“minds”, the nominative plural form of mēns, “mind”) + reae (the feminine nominative plural form of reus, “guilty”).

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