res gestae
C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Spontaneous utterances made in the immediacy of an event, received as an exception to the rule against hearsay.
Her scream of 'he's got a knife' came in as res gestae, since she had no time to concoct anything.
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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