prepense
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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
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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
I am not going to say that Lizzy Davis did this of "prepense;" I am even candid enough to acknowledge to you that I am not quite sure I can understand her.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
We have no alternative but to believe you guilty, with deliberate forethought, with ‘malice prepense.’
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth
It was the very age of impostors, cut-purses, swindlers, double gaugers, enthusiasts, ambiguous persons, quacks simple, quacks compound, crack-brained or with deceit prepense, quacks and quackeries of all colors and kinds.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various