prepense
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of prepense
1695–1705; pre- + -pense < Latin pēnsus, past participle of pendere to weigh, consider; pensive
Example Sentences
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On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Granger, however, was the first who introduced it in the form of a history; and surely "in an evil hour" was that history published; although its amiable author must be acquitted of "malice prepense."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
His main defects are two: he was too much a poet of malice prepense, and yet he wrote on the whole too fluently.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
“Simply because I never premeditatedly, and with malice prepense, bore myself by joining parties composed of persons in whom I have not an atom of interest.”
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
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