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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
premeditation
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But were the essential elements of first-degree murder present-malice and premeditation?
▪ From these interviews, some viewers will infer clearheaded premeditation of murder.
▪ He has to straddle a little bit on the question of premeditation.
▪ I do it without premeditation, as naturally and wearily as if I did it every night.
▪ That, thought Dalgliesh, would point to premeditation, or to the instinctive precaution of a knowledgeable expert.
▪ The prosecution laboured long on the amount of time the whittling had taken which therefore proved considerable premeditation.
▪ The quartet got carried away here; for musicians who have been accused of premeditation, consider that a virtue.
▪ There had therefore been a certain amount of premeditation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premeditation

Premeditation \Pre*med`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. praemeditatio: cf. F. pr['e]m['e]ditation.] The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
premeditation

early 15c., from Old French premeditacion and directly from Latin praemeditationem (nominative praemeditatio) "consideration beforehand," noun of action from past participle stem of praemeditari "to consider beforehand," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + meditari "to consider" (see meditation).

Wiktionary
premeditation

n. The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.

WordNet
premeditation

  1. n. planning or plotting in advance of acting [syn: forethought]

  2. (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent

Usage examples of "premeditation".

I got in after her without the slightest premeditation, and the postillion, seeing the carriage full, gave a crack with his whip and we were off, Redegonde shrieking with laughter.

By choosing to pose his victim, he revealed a distinct behavioral characteristic relating to his fantasies and premeditation of the crime.

Always superstitious, I was on the point of accepting, and that for the most foolish reason-namely, that there would be no premeditation in that strange resolution, and it might be the impulse of fate.

I would have been highly pleased if there had been premeditation on her part. I felt satisfied that I was a nobody in her estimation, and as I was conscious of being somebody, I wanted her to know it.

Cedric Boniface was in the law library, briefing the question of premeditation in connection with murder.

But I did not dream that, with full premeditation, they would pull the cavitated moon down upon themselves.

I got in after her without the slightest premeditation, and the postillion, seeing the carriage full, gave a crack with his whip and we were off, Redegonde shrieking with laughter.

A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation.

A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, some­times with cynical premeditation.

You know, maybe just pretend the abuse happened and back-pedal like crazy on the premeditation.

I went early by habit and with only short premeditation bought very cheaply the first lot of the day, an undistinguished-looking liver chestnut colt whose blood lines were sounder to the inspection than his spindly legs.

His premeditations passed through the three successive phases to which natures of a certain stamp are limited—reason, will, and obstinacy.

This assault was an affair got up with so little premeditation, that Captain Reud had no other arms than his regulation sword.