Usually means: Grace that precedes human action.
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  1. prevenient: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevenient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prevenient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prevenient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prevenient: Vocabulary.com
  6. prevenient: Wordnik
  7. prevenient: Wiktionary
  8. prevenient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. prevenient: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Prevenient, prevenient: Dictionary.com
  11. Prevenient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. prevenient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. prevenient: Rhymezone
  14. Prevenient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. prevenient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. prevenient: FreeDictionary.org
  17. prevenient: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. prevenient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. prevenient: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevenient: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevenient: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prevenient)

▸ adjective:  Relating to prevenience; anticipatory.

Similar:
anticipatory, preceding, antecedent, antevenient, preëmptory, precursive, preambulatory, premonitional, previsive, premonitive, more...

Opposite:
subsequent, following, succeeding

Types:
anticipatory, foregoing, preceding, prior, more...

Phrases:
prevenient grace, more...

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Similar:
anticipatory, preceding, antecedent, antevenient, preëmptory, precursive, preambulatory, premonitional, previsive, premonitive, more...

Opposite:
subsequent, following, succeeding

Types:
anticipatory, foregoing, preceding, prior, more...

Phrases:
prevenient grace, more...



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