This week’s theme
Adjectives used postpositively

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PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-FOHR-thot)

MEANING:

adjective: Planned or premeditated; not by accident.

ETYMOLOGY:

From afore (before) + thought, from Old English thoht. Ultimately from the Indo-European root tong- (to think or feel), which also gave us the words think and thank. Earliest documented use: 1472.

USAGE:

“[Jack] Taylor has definitely killed two men, one more or less by accident, the other with malice aforethought.”
Patrick Anderson; One Tough Tippler; The Washington Post; Jan 27, 2003.

See more usage examples of aforethought in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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