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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.
Definition 2024
prevenient
prevenient
English
Adjective
prevenient (comparative more prevenient, superlative most prevenient)
- 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.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.22: