prepense

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

To his having been in this condition several of the Court domestics, at the time called out of their beds, with purpose prepense, were able to bear witness.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

Occasionally they come into keen polemical strife; but it amounts to little more than a gladiatorial exhibition, or rather a light skirmishing, without malice prepense, or much evil result.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

"You are clear from all charge of malice prepense," she said.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

His most characteristic style exhibits a prepense ideal, of form rather than character, with a slight mode of handling, and silvery, somewhat cold, colour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various