What's the difference between premeditated and prepensely?

Premeditated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Premeditate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this investigation, reanalysis of responses to case vignettes obtained from 436 psychologists, psychiatrists, and internists revealed that on the issue of confidentiality management, these health care providers discriminate among cases involving: Premeditated harm to others, socially irresponsible acts with possible dire consequences to self or others, and minor theft.
  • (2) Ronald Johnson, the Missouri highway patrol captain drafted by the governor to take over security in the town and calm the situation down, blamed “premeditated criminal acts”.
  • (3) Charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 of attempted murder, Hasan's fate will rest, initially, with the 13 officers who will make up the military jury.
  • (4) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
  • (5) Hasan, 42, faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
  • (6) The report by Dr Androulla Johnstone and Christine Dent for the NHS Health and Social Care Advisory Service describes Savile as “an opportunistic predator who could also on occasions show a high degree of premeditation when planning attacks on his victims”.
  • (7) On Thursday she stood trial for premeditated murder and – according to state media – she confessed to the crime.
  • (8) The paralympian is accused of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp, who died of multiple gunshot wounds.
  • (9) Why was South Africa so stunned when Judge Thokozile Masipa found Oscar Pistorius not guilty of premeditated murder and murder ?
  • (10) Prosecution lawyers have tried to show that Manning's decision to transmit a vast trove of more than 700,000 state documents was calculated and premeditated and not, as the defence argues, provoked by some of the disturbing experiences he had in Iraq .
  • (11) Albanian's penal code refers to vendetta as premeditated murder, but the courts are still at a loss to know how to cope with this parallel system of justice.
  • (12) But the religious argument contains the kernel of a compelling secular argument against assisted dying: it is inherently dangerous for the law to sanction premeditated killing, even within a highly specified set of circumstances.
  • (13) Pistorius, 27, is charged with premeditated murder over Steenkamp's shooting death on 14 February last year and faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
  • (14) 11.28am BST UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has accused Russia of a "gross, deliberate and premeditated" destabilisation of Ukraine, ahead of a meeting with EU foreign ministers.
  • (15) For Democrats, perhaps the most obvious piece of evidence of GOP premeditated malice is the 2010 quote from Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
  • (16) This was almost certainly a premeditated move from the respective coaches, Argentina’s Gerardo Martino and Fernando Santos of Portugal, though only Martino admitted as much.
  • (17) (That might be difficult, given Sisi, in the words of Human Rights Watch, approved “premeditated lethal attacks” on largely unarmed protesters which could amount to “crimes against humanity”.)
  • (18) Although this may be true for carefully premeditated acts, suicide attempts and assaults by youth are usually precipitated by an acute stressor that depends on the availability of a weapon at that immediate time.
  • (19) A man who lured two police officers into a gun and grenade attack with "premeditated savagery" while on the run for murdering a father and son was told on Thursday that he would spend the rest of his life in jail.
  • (20) It is plainly not the case that the threat of international justice deters the premeditated use of massacre, rape and child soldiers as standard weapons of warfare.

Prepensely


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a premeditated manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The possibility of disability is high in persons of prepension age, females, persons engaged in qualified physical work, and in trauma suffered at work.

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