preterintentional
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preterintentional (not comparable)
- (law) Of a crime: more serious than the lesser crime that the perpetrator intended to commit instead.
- 1953, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 7, page 355:
- The number of intentional homicides and preterintentional homicides reported are[sic] available for 1900-1939 and 1946-47.