crimen injuria

noun

In Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse).

OriginLatin crīmen →
First used 20th c.
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Meanings

noun
  1. South Africacriminal lawIn Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse).First known use 20th c.

    The four students about whom headlines of the urination into a pot of stew for blacks went around the world will go on trial—later—in August this year, charged with crimen injuria.

    2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 288

Origin

  1. Latincrīmen“crime”
  2. Englishcrimen injuria

From Latin crīmen (“crime”) + ablative form of iniūria (“injury”).

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Chicago

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