Premeditation or advance planning; thinking ahead about future actions or consequences.
Gerund form of 'forthink.' The '-ing' suffix converts the verb to a noun denoting the act of premeditated thinking.
Medieval legal scholars distinguished between crimes of 'forthinking' (planned and malicious) versus sudden crimes of passion—your whole legal fate depended on whether prosecutors could prove 'forthinking'!
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