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foresentence en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + sentence.

Meanings

  1. (rare) A sentence or condemnation in advance.
    • To move on that note from our deficient techniques of fact-gathering, there is a troublesome quality of class bias both in the subjects treated in foresentence reports and the standard modes of treatment. 1975, H. Richard Uviller, The Processes of Criminal Justice: Investigation, page 794:
  2. (qualifier:religious) Prophetic doom.

Forms

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foresentences Number=Plur lexicographic
fore-sentence alternative lexicographic

foresentence en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + sentence.

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To sentence beforehand or in advance.
    • On the strength of having a good time in one's teens, one foresentences one's manhood to derision at an early age: and to a life-long subjection to women and younger exoletes. 1934, Roy Campbell, Broken Record: Reminiscences - Page 158:
    • Be it not mine to foresentence a sinner, whose sin's consummation Prefaced his ultimate ruin—his last dying act may atone For some misdeeds ; and whatever be written of Hell and damnation, God alone knows what is gospel; […] 1889, Charles Allan Sherard, A Daughter of the South and Other Poems - Page 10:

Forms

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foresentences Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
foresentencing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fore-sentence alternative lexicographic
foresentenced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
foresentenced Tense=Past lexicographic