premeditatedly

Example Sentences

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In charging Ryan with “depraved heart” second-degree murder, authorities did not assert that Ryan premeditatedly killed Harris.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2022

"Do you mean to say," asked Aunt Martha, "that you willingly and premeditatedly became a thief and midnight robber?"

From The Stories of the Three Burglars by Stockton, Frank Richard

The day, however, passed off tolerably well for people who are expected to be premeditatedly happy, and when, in their hearts, they are really more disposed to weep than to laugh.

From Precaution by Cooper, James Fenimore

“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

This shows the difference between the policy of Louis the Fourteenth, who built a wall of brass about his kingdom, and that of Joseph the Second, who premeditatedly uncovered his whole frontier.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund