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prepense

/pɹɪˈpɛns/

prepense adjective: devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

Adjective

prepense

  1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

Verb

prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
    • All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC
    • submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.

prepense meaning in Bengali and Kannada

prepense in Bengali

পূর্বপরিকল্পিত, উদ্দেশ্যমূলক

prepense in Kannada

ಉದ್ದೇಶಪೂರ್ವಕವಾದ, ತಿಳಿದೂ ತಿಳಿದೂ ಮಾಡುವ

Forms of prepense

third-person singular presentprepenses
present participleprepensing
past participleprepensed
pastprepensed

Origin of prepense

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Words formed from prepense

Words that rhyme with prepense

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Questions about prepense

What does prepense mean?
Prepense means devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
What is prepense in Bengali?
Prepense in Bengali is পূর্বপরিকল্পিত, উদ্দেশ্যমূলক. See Prepense meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is prepense?
Prepense can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce prepense?
Prepense is pronounced /pɹɪˈpɛns/.

Words near prepense in the dictionary

  1. prependings
  2. prepends
  3. prepenetration
  4. prepenetrations
  5. prepenial
  6. prepense
  7. prepensed
  8. prepensely
  9. prepenses
  10. prepensing
  11. prepensive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prepense (page history and authors); prepense (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prepense (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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