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Meanings of aforethought in English

Planned in advance.

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Examples for "planned"
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Standard Chartered said today it planned to issue credit cards in China.
The Irish Times
2
Related events are planned in countries involved in the project, including Britain.
Reuters
3
Auckland Transport said there were no planned road closures for events today.
Radio NZ
4
He said he planned to challenge the fixed penalty notice in court.
The Guardian
5
Clinton said she planned to ask Preval what more help was needed.
Reuters
1
The simple course over to the station had been plotted for hours.
The Naked God
2
Certainly, the High King had plotted just such a retreat many times.
The Wyrmling Horde
3
IHCA event rates and outcomes were plotted over time by arrest location.
Pubmed
4
Barry plotted our course, and we began our archery tour of Rhodes.
All together dead
5
All of these can be measured, and the results plotted over time.
The Guardian
Usage of aforethought in English
1
And in his case he does it deliberately and of malice aforethought.
Mushrooms on the Moor
2
God knows; she might think it was done spitefully, with malice aforethought.
Shallow Soil
3
Now, let us go forth and smite the ungodly with malice aforethought.
From hell with love
4
Indeed, I have with malice aforethought ransacked his works to find them.
The Last Harvest
5
Terrible as is his crime, he never committed it out of malice aforethought.
The Golden Dog
6
If he actually smite a man with malicious aforethought, it is an Aredus.
Sacred Books of the East
7
I'll have thee to the justice, sirrah, for wicked malice aforethought, and misprision.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
8
Why is it you are always ashamed of your country? with malice aforethought.
The Puppet Crown
9
He had acted in cold blood, with malice aforethought, without hesitation or regret.
Depths
10
All that is bad in his works is bad elaborately, and of malice aforethought.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Strange words for a priest, thought the Chevalier, who had spoken with irony aforethought.
The Grey Cloak
12
This sailing with a "dry" boat was malice aforethought on my part.
John Barleycorn
13
But he is much given to making threats, bearing grudges and behaving with malice aforethought.
The Guardian
14
But even granting that, one could scarcely help suspecting malice aforethought in the curious provision.
Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnig...
15
One thing was for sure: whoever it was had done it with complete malice aforethought.
A journey: my political life
16
I think he did it with malice aforethought, too.
The Hollow of Her Hand
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