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Webster 1913 Edition


Prevenient

Pre-ven′i-ent

,
Adj.
[L.
praeveniens
, p. pr.]
Going before; preceding; hence, preventive.
Prevenient grace descending.”
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prevenient

PREVE'NIENT

,
Adj.
[L. proeveniens.] Going before; preceding; hence,preventive; as prevenient grace.

Definition 2024


prevenient

prevenient

English

Adjective

prevenient (comparative more prevenient, superlative most prevenient)

  1. Of or pertaining to prevenience
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.22:
      They drank and bet and muttered in an air of electric transiency, old men in gaitered sleeves galvanized from some stained sepia, posting time at cards prevenient of their dimly augured doom.

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