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Definition of "aforethought" []

  • Planned or intended beforehand; premeditated: malice aforethought. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "aforethought" in a sentence
  • "Second-degree murder is killing with malice aforethought, which is killing deliberately or recklessly with extreme disregard for human life."
  • "They do not often permit a man to make himself a fine orator of malice aforethought, that is, unless he be a nobleman, (as, for example,"
  • "They do not often permit a man to make himself a fine orator of malice aforethought, that is, unless he be a nobleman (as, for example,"