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Pretensed vs Prepensed - What's the difference?

pretensed | prepensed |

As an adjective pretensed

is (obsolete) pretended; feigned.

As a verb prepensed is

(prepense).

pretensed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete) pretended; feigned

    • Related terms

    * pretensedly (Webster 1913)

    prepensed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (prepense)

    • prepense

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

    • See also

    * malice prepense

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To weigh or consider beforehand; to consider.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
    • submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense , / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
  • To deliberate beforehand.