scienter
pronunciation
How to pronounce scienter in British English:
UK [saɪ'entə]
How to pronounce scienter in American English:
US [saɪ'entə]
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- Adverb:
- deliberately or knowingly
Word Origin
- scienter (adv.)
- legalese Latin, literally "knowingly," from sciens, present participle of scire "to know" (see science) + adverbial suffix -ter.
Example
- 1. Scienter I miss you when I shall be heartache be grieve .
- 2. The fact that any bank " should have known " is not the same as " scienter " , the required standard of knowledge of a fraud .