prevenient
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- prevenance noun
- prevenience noun
- preveniently adverb
Etymology
Origin of prevenient
1600–10; < Latin praevenient- (stem of praeveniēns ) coming before, present participle of praevenīre to anticipate. See pre-, convenient
Example Sentences
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He is almost entirely dependent upon God's "prevenient grace," which gives him the desire to do God's will, and "subsequent grace," which enables him to do it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The division of grace into efficacious and merely sufficient is not identical with that into prevenient and coöperating.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
True to his Paphian mother, trace by trace, Slowly the Love-god with prevenient art, Begins the lost Sychæus to efface, And living passion to a breast impart Long dead to feeling, and a vacant heart.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
After prevenient Grace, however, begins to make itself felt, then the will begins to take part.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)
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