foresentenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From fore- +‎ sentence.

名詞

foresentence (複数形 foresentences)

1. (law, まれに) 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.

2. (religious) Prophetic doom.

動詞

foresentence (三人称単数 現在形 foresentences, 現在分詞 foresentencing, 過去形および過去分詞形 foresentenced)

1. (transitive, まれに) 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.