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English
Etymology
From fore- + sentence.
Noun
foresentence (plural foresentences)
- (law, rare) A sentence or condemnation in advance.
1975, H. Richard Uviller, The Processes of Criminal Justice: Investigation, page 794:To move on that note from our deficient techniques of fact-gathering, there is a troublesome quality of class bias both in the subjects treated in foresentence reports and the standard modes of treatment.
- (religious) Prophetic doom.
Verb
foresentence (third-person singular simple present foresentences, present participle foresentencing, simple past and past participle foresentenced)
- (transitive, rare) To sentence beforehand or in advance.
1889, Charles Allan Sherard, A Daughter of the South and Other Poems - Page 10:Be it not mine to foresentence a sinner, whose sin's consummation Prefaced his ultimate ruin—his last dying act may atone For some misdeeds ; and whatever be written of Hell and damnation, God alone knows what is gospel; […]
1934, Roy Campbell, Broken Record: Reminiscences - Page 158:On the strength of having a good time in one's teens, one foresentences one's manhood to derision at an early age: and to a life-long subjection to women and younger exoletes.