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foresentence

foresentence noun: a sentence or condemnation in advance.

Noun

foresentence (plural foresentences)

  1. (rare) A sentence or condemnation in advance.
    • To move on that note from our deficient techniques of fact-gathering, there is a troublesome quality of class bias both in the subjects treated in foresentence reports and the standard modes of treatment.1975, H. Richard Uviller, The Processes of Criminal Justice: Investigation, page 794
  2. (religious) Prophetic doom.

Verb

foresentence (third-person singular simple present foresentences, present participle foresentencing, simple past and past participle foresentenced)

  1. (rare, transitive) To sentence beforehand or in advance.
    • Be it not mine to foresentence a sinner, whose sin's consummation Prefaced his ultimate ruin—his last dying act may atone For some misdeeds ; and whatever be written of Hell and damnation, God alone knows what is gospel; […]1889, Charles Allan Sherard, A Daughter of the South and Other Poems - Page 10
    • On the strength of having a good time in one's teens, one foresentences one's manhood to derision at an early age: and to a life-long subjection to women and younger exoletes.1934, Roy Campbell, Broken Record: Reminiscences - Page 158

Forms of foresentence

Noun
pluralforesentences
alternative formfore-sentence
Verb
third-person singular presentforesentences
present participleforesentencing
past participleforesentenced
pastforesentenced

Origin of foresentence

From fore- + sentence.

Questions about foresentence

What does foresentence mean?
Foresentence means a sentence or condemnation in advance.
What part of speech is foresentence?
Foresentence can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of foresentence?
The plural of foresentence is foresentences.

Words near foresentence in the dictionary

  1. foresense
  2. foresensed
  3. foresenses
  4. foresensing
  5. foresent
  6. foresentence
  7. foresentenced
  8. foresentences
  9. foresentencing
  10. foreset
  11. foresets

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