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
I answer that, As grace is divided into operating and cooperating, with regard to its diverse effects, so also is it divided into prevenient and subsequent, howsoever we consider grace.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
And as one effect is posterior to this effect, and prior to that, so may grace be called prevenient and subsequent on account of the same effect viewed relatively to divers others.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The Doctors call this gratiam primam et praevenientem, that is, the first and prevenient grace.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
The Semipelagians ascribed the dispositions necessary for justification to the natural efforts of the will, thereby denying the necessity of prevenient grace.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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