Meaning and example
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
The passage used "jurisprudence" to mean the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.563 places jurisprudence in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 71.5% of people in the source dataset.
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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