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
If we conceive a continuous series of supernatural graces, each may be called either prevenient or subsequent, according as it is regarded either as a cause or as an effect.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
Consequently, there can be no efficacious prayer without prevenient grace, and purely natural prayer is inefficacious for salvation.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
Objection 1: It would seem that 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
If the necessity of prevenient grace was not sufficiently emphasized, the circumstances of the time explain, and to some extent excuse, the mistake.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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