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Meanings of knowing one's target beforehand in English
Premeditation or predetermination of a crime, increasing the guilt or enormity of the crime.
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Examples for "premeditated"
Examples for "premeditated"
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It looks as if it was in some way premeditated, she said.
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Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor said on Thursday that the murder was premeditated.
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Least of all after conceiving a precise and premeditated plan of escape.
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This crime is one which in its nature is deliberate and premeditated.
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After all, it was not a premeditated assassination, said Madame d'Elbeuf coolly.
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The act was without premeditation; her whole being was insistent upon it.
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It decided the offence merited a top-level entry in terms of premeditation.
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Against the theory of premeditation the following cardinal facts may be urged:
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Methinks, Father Francis, we need now but the evidence of the premeditation.
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He seated himself with plain premeditation directly opposite the caisse, staring openly.
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This circumstance wears the look of almost a predetermination to accept defeat.
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The actual facts had little to do with the predetermination of the members.
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Most fundamentally: there was no presumption of innocence; instead, a predetermination of guilt.
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Foreknowledge and predetermination on his part are impossible, according to Renouvier.
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Some momentary paroxysm prompted the deed; there could have been no preparation, no predetermination.
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And in his case he does it deliberately and of malice aforethought.
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God knows; she might think it was done spitefully, with malice aforethought.
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Now, let us go forth and smite the ungodly with malice aforethought.
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Indeed, I have with malice aforethought ransacked his works to find them.
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Terrible as is his crime, he never committed it out of malice aforethought.
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The questions you have pale before the bald fact of premeditated murder.
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He has appeared in court charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
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An Alameda County jury convicted him of first-degree, premeditated murder in April.
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A charge against him of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder was dismissed.
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We condemn this crime, this assassination, as deliberate and premeditated murder, he said.