prepense

Example Sentences

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Could them get help from so-called the US activist group China Aid without any prepense selection?!

From BBC

He did, it is true, occasionally chafe against some susceptible spot or other of those around him, but there was no malice prepense in it, any more than there is intentional offence in the passage of a strong man through a crowd; so he elbowed his way, and pushed on in conversation, never so much as suspecting that he jostled any one in his path.

From Project Gutenberg

Not at once, I confess—not off-hand, and with such malice prepense as the others—for Nicodemus Handy had a soul above such black ingratitude—but after a pause, and, let the truth be told in extenuation, because he could not help it.

From Project Gutenberg

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.

From Project Gutenberg

The whole development of the substantive law as to murder rests on judicial rulings as to the meaning of malice prepense coupled with the extrajudicial commentaries of Coke, Hale and Foster; for parliament, though often tempted by bills and codes, has never ventured on a legislative definition.

From Project Gutenberg