Premeditation or deliberate intention; a thought formed in advance.
Past tense nominalization of 'forthink,' using the strong verb form with vowel change. In legal and philosophical contexts, refers to the deliberate nature of an action.
In Shakespeare's time, 'forthought' was the legal term separating murder from manslaughter—the difference between 'forthought' malice and a crime committed in the heat of passion was literally the difference between hanging and exile!
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