informations
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NounEdit
informations
- plural of information
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- 'We have another deposition, doctor, to take; Mr. Irons, here, is prepared to swear informations of very singular importance.'
- 2011, Daniel E. Hall, Criminal Law and Procedure:
- The second formal method of charging someone with a crime is by information. Informations are filed by prosecutors without grand jury review.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Usage notesEdit
- Most senses of the word “information” are uncountable. The legal sense, referring to court filings, is one that does form a plural.