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

Mrs. Rodney has of malice prepense secluded herself from public gaze at least for an hour.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

His main defects are two: he was too much a poet of malice prepense, and yet he wrote on the whole too fluently.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

But the malice prepense must be inferred, from words, deeds, and circumstances.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

“Providence” divine or human, prepense moral or spiritual “foresight,” was a thing in the excellence of which our prophet of divine instinct and inspired flesh could not consistently believe.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles