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foresentence
noun 2verb 1
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3VERB + FORESENTENCE
mine, subjects, treated
FORESENTENCE + NOUN
sinner
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in
Definitions
noun
1
A sentence or condemnation in advance.
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.
2
Prophetic doom.
verb
1
To sentence beforehand or in advance.
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; […]
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.
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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 treatm
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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 k
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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.
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