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
Then by His prevenient working within us He moves us to return.
From The Pursuit of God by Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson)
Objection 1: It would seem that grace is not fittingly divided into prevenient and subsequent.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
If the necessity of prevenient grace was not sufficiently emphasized, the circumstances of the time explain, and to some extent excuse, the mistake.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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