presentence

1. not comparableOccurring 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."

   1988 October 14, Michael Miner, “Local Paper Does Good; Quayle Watching”, in Chicago Reader

   Synonyms: presentencing

present singular third person presentences · participle present presentencing · participle past presentenced · past presentenced

1. transitiveTo sentence in advance.

   […] he was conscious to himself that he had prejudged, preconvicted, and even presentenced the Man whom he tried, months before he heard his case, as is demonstrated by his threat to Mrs. MILBANK "that he would send him into penal servitude!" […]

   1874, The Englishman, volume 1, page 393

plural presentences

1. human sciencesA sentence-like utterance that precedes the development of properly grammatical sentences.