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presentence

adj

Etymology

From pre- + sentence.

  1. derived from *sent-✻
  2. derived from sententia
  3. borrowed from sentence
  4. prefixed as presentence — “pre + sentence”

Definitions

  1. Occurring before or in preparation for a criminal sentence.

    • "Pulitzer's request"--Marshall would eventually write--"is both novel and complex, pitting the public's right to know […] against the traditional confidentiality of presentence investigation materials."

  2. To sentence in advance.

  3. A sentence-like utterance that precedes the development of properly grammatical sentences.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for presentence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA