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
True to his Paphian mother, trace by trace, Slowly the Love-god with prevenient art, Begins the lost Sychæus to efface, And living passion to a breast impart Long dead to feeling, and a vacant heart.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Hence 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
Grace does no more than give impressions which are conducive to making will operate through fitting motives, such as would be an attention, a dic cur hic, a prevenient pleasure.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
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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