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Definition of Prepensely
1. adv. In a premeditated manner.
Definition of Prepensely
1. Adverb. In a premeditated manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prepensely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prepensely
Literary usage of Prepensely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society by Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"2) are too prepensely roman to be altogether satisfactory; but the change seems
to be due not to Robert, as might be expected, but to his brother Fran$ois. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"All this makes a puzzle, the more difficult to unravel because, as I suspect, it
was prepensely concocted by Pope ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"... to a little Prussian town, that the British nation learned how deeply and
prepensely they had been involved in this, perhaps, irretrievable difficulty. ..."
4. William Morris, His Art, His Writings, and His Public Life: A Record by Aymer Vallance (1897)
"It is too much compressed, too spiky, and, so to say, too prepensely Gothic.
But there are many types which are of a transitional character and of all ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1832)
"Mr. V hurries instantly to the Constitutionnel, and offers the service of his
pen, announces publicly and prepensely (which gives me the right to print this ..."
6. Minutes (1842)
"And if, on the other hand, it shall be found guilty of sympathizing with inhumanity,
or of holding its peace prepensely in the presence of slavery or any ..."
7. The Southern Review by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1871)
"There is a very great deal of poetry, especially in the English language, the
intentions and sentiment of which are professedly and prepensely pathetic, ..."
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