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prevenient

[ pri-veen-yuhnt ]

adjective

  1. coming before; antecedent.


prevenient

/ ɪˈːɪəԳ /

adjective

  1. coming before; anticipating or preceding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԾԳٱ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··ԲԳ [prev, -, uh, -n, uh, ns], ··Գ [pri-, veen, -y, uh, ns], noun
  • ·iԳ· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of prevenient1

1600–10; < Latin praevenient- (stem of 𱹱ԾŧԲ ) coming before, present participle of 𱹱ī to anticipate. See pre-, convenient
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of prevenient1

C17: from Latin 𱹱ī to precede, prevent
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We hear great men discussing the question of "prevenient grace," as they would discuss the composition of milk punch, and we hear them mutually anathematize each other on this plain and demonstrable proposition.

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There is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal.

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He shows us the way by his prevenient grace, which is bestowed on all men without exception.

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The division of grace into efficacious and merely sufficient is not identical with that into prevenient and coöperating.

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An aggressive woman with opinions about prevenient grace, or the advantages of female emigration, or the functions of the deaconess, would be far preferable to this.

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