In other cases, nonce words are the result of a mistake. The G. and C. Merriam Company, for example, added the word “dord” to its 1934 New International Dictionary as an abbreviation for ...

At some point, “nonce” became widely used in U.K. prisons as a label for sex offenders, particularly those convicted of crimes against children.

Nonce words in the Canterbury Tales as a whole appear at the rate of one in every twenty-seven lines. The highest concentration of these words occurs in Sir Thopas and in the Reeve's Tale where ...

The district court concluded that the word “module” was a “nonce” word for “means” and that the claims were indefinite for failure of the patent to provide corresponding structure.

Adult English-L1 (n = 20) and English-L2 (n = 32) experimental groups were given a novel containing nonce words to read within two weeks to investigate whether the reading of fiction can induce a ...