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

Gwendolen could dare nothing except an impulsive action—least of all could she dare premeditatedly a vague future in which the only certain condition was indignity.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

The simplicity with which William went about reclaiming him as a part of the preparation for the coming revival seemed to me almost too premeditatedly spiritual.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra

She writes, as your Lordship has read, 'That, in endeavouring to save a drowning wretch, she had been, not accidentally, but premeditatedly, and of set purpose, drawn in after him.'

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel

“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