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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke