preventedadj.
/prᵻˈvɛntᵻd/, U.S. /prəˈvɛn(t)əd/, /priˈvɛn(t)əd/ Anticipated; precluded, forestalled, stopped.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adjective] > prevented or checked > thwarted
forbeft1487
prevented1568
frustrate1588
crossed1621
frustrateda1643
baffleda1658
nonsuit1679
balked1704
thwarted1828
1568 J. Fen tr. J. Osório Learned Treat. Haddon ii. f. 177v The purpose of God is a preuented iudgement, in the which God according to election and foreknowledge of thinges,..some he apointeth mercifully vnto glorie, and other he adiudgeth to euerlasting damnation.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Qq2v In this same anticipated and preuented knowledge; no man knoweth howe he came to the knowledge which hee hath obtayned. View more context for this quotation
1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar xxxi. 232 This conspiracie should be vnremembred here, because it was onely a preuented purpose, not an act.
1706 C. Cibber Perolla & Izadora iii. 33 Does not thy Lover's Life Reward thee well for my prevented Oath?
1725 J. Glanvill tr. Horace in Poems 216 The Wanton in a toying Vein Snatches the Kiss from the prevented Swain.
a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) vi. 170 Such seed will always germinate, though held in the hand of an Egyptian mummy for three thousand years. It was only a delayed, not a prevented growth.
1908 J. Barlow Mockers 98 (title) A prevented cure.
1990 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 19 779/2 It was calculated that immunization at eight or nine months of age would give the same number of prevented cases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1568