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prevenient, a.|prɪˈviːnɪənt|
[ad. L. prævenient-em, pres. pple. of prævenīre: see prevene.]
1. Coming before, preceding, previous, antecedent.
1656Blount Glossogr., Prevenient, coming or going before, preventing. 1800Lamb Let. to Manning 3 Nov., Wks. (1865) 54 Which..stupidly stood alone, nothing prevenient or antevenient. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde v. Lay Elena x, The darker, soberer, sadder green Prevenient to decay. 1859C. Barker Assoc. Princ. iii. 64 The various predisposing or prevenient agencies existing in Europe. 1895Salmon Chr. Doctr. Immort. v. ii. 518 It could not take effect until two prevenient events had occurred.
b. Hence, anticipatory, expectant. Const. of.
1814Cary Dante (Chandos) 286 She, of the time prevenient, on the spray, That overhangs the couch, with wakeful gaze, Expects the sun. 1881J. Simon in Nature XXIV. 374/1 Unless they be regulated and inspected under a special law in much the same prevenient spirit as if they were prostitutes under the Contagious Diseases Act. 1889Macm. Mag. Aug. 300/2 Prevenient of all disgraceful sickness or waste in the unsullied limbs.
2. Antecedent to human action. prevenient grace, in Theol., the grace of God which precedes repentance and conversion, predisposing the heart to seek God, previously to any desire or motion on the part of the recipient. See prevene v. 1 c, prevent v. 4.
a1607J. Raynolds Proph. Haggai ix. (1649) 100 Gods grace must be both prevenient to go before, and subsequent to follow after us in all things. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 3 From the Mercie-seat above Prevenient Grace descending had remov'd The stonie from thir hearts, and made new flesh. 1747Mallet Amyntor & Theodora iii. 127 Love celestial whose prevenient aid Forbids approaching ill. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 85 The articles of prevenient and auxiliary grace. 1849R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Bapt. (1850) 59 Since this action of prevenient grace does not supersede human responsibility, it can only persuade, it cannot coerce. 1904J. R. Illingworth Chr. Charac. ix. 167 This desire..must come from God, by what is technically called His prevenient or antecedent grace. Ibid. 168 There is nothing in this term ‘prevenient grace’ to favour the Calvinistic doctrine of irresistible and indefectible grace.
Hence preˈveniently adv., antecedently, previously.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 3 This is a course that shall make men either preveniently thankful, or inexcusably desperate. 1880Mrs. Whitney Odd or Even? xxv, Neatly, and perhaps, preveniently, discharged her conscience. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 1343/1 Are they those misconceptions of the nature and role of poetry which this most preveniently resourceful essay in metaphysics would correct? 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit iii. 74 God's Spirit works preveniently to bring a person to conversion. 1977Theology LXXX. 192 Whenever and wherever there is response to the divine love, there that love is preveniently at work. |