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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats