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Propense vs Prepense - What's the difference?

propense | prepense |

As adjectives the difference between propense and prepense

is that propense is leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness while prepense is devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

As a verb prepense is

to weigh or consider beforehand; to consider.

propense

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness.

    • Derived terms

    * propensely * propenseness

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    Anagrams

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    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.