prepense
Use Prepense in a sentence
adjective
planned or intended in advance; premeditated.
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| —adj | |
| (postpositive) (usually in legal contexts) arranged in advance; premeditated (esp in the phrase malice prepense) | |
| [C18: from Anglo-Norman purpensé, from Old French purpenser to consider in advance, from penser to think, from Latin pēnsāre to weigh, consider] | |
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Prepense
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example sentences
And though the door was shut in my face, it was not by the rector, or with malice prepense.
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