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Meanings of prepense in English

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Usage of prepense in English
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A fool works more mischief with his folly than of malice prepense.
The Beetle: A Mystery
2
Or-isit possible that she said it out of malice prepense?
The Story Girl
3
As for Felicity, she did not say things like that out of malice prepense.
The Story Girl
4
They did not go to work, with malice prepense, to weave allegories and apologues.
Myths and Myth-Makers / Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted ...
5
This is an act of treason, done by malice prepense!
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
6
Beware of malice prepense, of chance-medley, and of manslaughter.
The Prairie
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Or is it an outcry made with malice prepense?
Roundabout Papers
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I flew in the face of the Church's teaching; but I did it without malice prepense.
Jude the Obscure
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But the critic has been grandly deceptive, either designedly or of ignorance prepense in his arithmetic.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
10
It is the writing solely for gain, with malice prepense to save it,-thatis the stumbling-block
Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife
11
But there many of them, one suspects, were made not of malice, but of cowardice prepense.
Prose Idylls, New and Old
12
She looked at it as a trap; not, indeed, set with malice prepense, but still a trap.
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
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Had she done it of malice prepense?
Helena
14
Martha takes a most prosaic view of this proceeding, in which she detects malice prepense on my part.
Stepping Heavenward
15
Never again did he employ the type-worn expressions of country journalism, except with set prepense and self-evident satire.
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1
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And though the door was shut in my face, it was not by the rector, or with malice prepense.
The Making of an American
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