prepense
Thought out previously
Prepense means premeditated or planned in advance, appearing almost exclusively in the legal phrase malice prepense (or its more common variant, malice aforethought).
The word follows its noun in the French manner.
Outside legal contexts, prepense is rare but occasionally surfaces for deliberate effect: with prepense irony.
Prior intent to harm
- premeditationAdvance planning of action
- intentPlanned purpose
- mens reaBlameworthy mental state
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
forethought · willfulness · criminal intent · deliberate · purposeful · calculated · planned · intentional
Planning before acting
- aforethoughtPrior deliberate intention
- premeditatedPlanned before acting
- deliberateConsciously chosen, not accidental
- preconceivedFormed beforehand, without basis
predetermined · preplanned · willful · intentional · purposed · advised · studied · considered
malice aforethought
Prior intent to harm
- premeditationAdvance planning of action
- intentPlanned purpose
- mens reaBlameworthy mental state
deliberation · forethought · willfulness · criminal intent · deliberate · purposeful · calculated · planned · intentional · predetermined
forethought
Planning before acting
- aforethoughtPrior deliberate intention
- premeditatedPlanned before acting
- deliberateConsciously chosen, not accidental
preconceived · predetermined · preplanned · willful · intentional · purposed · advised · studied · considered · designed
prepenseunpremeditated
Without advance planning
spontaneous · unplanned · unintentional · impulsive · unwitting
expense, pensive, suspense, dispense, recompense, preponderance, pensively, pensiveness, premeditate