Prepense
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɹɪˈpɛns/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prepense is an adjective meaning Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
Meaning
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
- (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.
Example Sentences
All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously
submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
Word Forms
- prepenses
- prepensing
- prepensed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include malice, preconceived, prepensive, premeditated, aforethought, forethought.
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