autrefois acquit
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A plea barring retrial on the ground that the accused has already been acquitted of the same offence.
He raised autrefois acquit, having been cleared of the identical charge two years earlier.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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