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Etymology

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non- +‎ forcible

Adjective

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nonforcible (not comparable)

  1. Not forcible.
    • 2007 May 3, Bob Driehaus, “Court Rejects Limit on Bids by Convicts for DNA Tests”, in New York Times[1]:
      The origins of the case lay in an effort to seek DNA testing by Cameron Sterling, who was convicted in 1991 of nonforcible rape of a child younger than 13 and sentenced to 6 to 25 years in prison. Mr. Sterling entered a so-called Alford plea, in which he continued to assert his innocence but acknowledged that the prosecutors had evidence that might persuade a jury.

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