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prepense en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈpɛns/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Meanings

1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

Deriveds

prepensely

Relateds

malice prepense

prepense en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈpɛns/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
   • All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
   • submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.

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