The structure of groups with all proper quotients virtually nilpotent

, we obtain the just non-(virtually abelian) groups without non-trivial abelian normal subgroups. Our first result is that a finitely generated profinite group is virtually class bd

c

nilpotent if and only if there are only finitely many subgroups arising as the lower central series terms

g a m m a_{c + 1} (K)

of open normal subgroups

K

of

G

. Based on this we prove several structure theorems. For instance, we characterize the JNN

_{c}

F profinite groups in terms of subgroups of the above form

g a m m a_{c + 1} (K)

. We also give a description of JNN

_{c}

F profinite groups as suitable inverse limits of virtually nilpotent profinite groups. Analogous results are established for the family of hereditarily JNN

_{c}

F groups and, for instance, we show that a Fitting-free JNN

_{c}

F profinite (or discrete) group is hereditarily JNN

_{c} F

if and only if every maximal subgroup of finite index is JNN

_{c}

F. Finally, we give a construction of hereditarily JNN

_{c}

F groups, which uses as an input known families of hereditarily just infinite groups.

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