单词 | prevenience |
释义 | preveniencen. 1. The fact or condition of being prevenient; an instance of this; an act of anticipation or forethought. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance humouring1602 complacence1626 obligingness1638 complying1639 compliance1641 complacency1651 complaisance1651 accommodableness1663 obligation1664 complaisancy1710 prevenience1751 compliancy1765 prevenancy1768 prevenance1823 1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb iii. 287 She should set me down on the list of the company she admitted to visit her... This she said to me, as I was leading her to her chair, and as this was a prevenience of the request I was meditating, I received and answered it with..warmth. 1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing xxv Striving by a thousand gentle preveniences, to spare her from fatigue and care. 1952 News (Frederick, Maryland) 7 May 13/1 Wilson is faulted for anticipating pitches, but..Wilson's prevenience didn't handicap his last trip, when he developed into a fine thrower in Buffalo. 1989 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 109 583/2 The fact of these poets' unfortunate prevenience to the ‘High T'ang’. 2. Theology. The entry of God, or the grace of God, into a person prior to repentance or conversion. Cf. prevenient adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > graciousness or grace > preceding repentance or conversion > fact or action of prevention1651 prevenience1872 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 417 They [sc. Semi-Pelagians] held free-will and predestination from foreknowledge, denying the prevenience of grace. 1948 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 9 449 Pelagius..did not deny grace but simply underestimated the necessity of its prevenience. 1996 Church Times 21 June 16/4 Bishop Holloway..asserts that basic to the theology of evangelism is the doctrine of the prevenience of God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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