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crimen injuria en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (South-Africa, qualifier:criminal law) In Roman-Dutch law, the unlawful and intentional impairment of someone's dignity (covering road rage, stalking, and various kinds of abuse).
    • 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: