| 释义 |
preˈpensely, adv.
[f. prepense a. + -ly2.]
In a prepense manner; with deliberation or premeditation; deliberately, purposely, designedly.
1837Landor Pentameron, 2nd Day's Interv. Wks. 1853 II. 320/1, I never could see why we should designedly and prepensely give to one writer more than his due, to another less. 1880W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) II. 13 Sonning, a village prepensely picturesque. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. iii. (ed. 2) 201 Shakespeare..has set himself as if prepensely to brutalise the type of Achilles. |