nonintent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ intent

Noun[edit]

nonintent (uncountable)

  1. Lack of intent.
    • 1989, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings on Measures to Protect the Physical Integrity of the American Flag, page 81:
      Significantly, Justice Brennan himself has even written that a statute "that simply outlawed any public burning or mutilation of the flag, regardless of the expressive intent or nonintent of the actor," would be "invalid for the reasons stated in . . . Spence."
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