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Prevenience vs Prevenance - What's the difference?

prevenience | prevenance |

As nouns the difference between prevenience and prevenance

is that prevenience is (methodism) the act or condition of occurring earlier, of being antecedent while prevenance is a going before; anticipation in sequence or order.

prevenience

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Methodism) The act or condition of occurring earlier, of being antecedent.
  • (Methodism) Something done beforehand in anticipation of a later situation.

    • Usage notes

    * In contemporary English, this term is specific to Methodism and the theology of .

    Derived terms

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    prevenance

    English

    Noun

  • A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.
  • * Ward
    • The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence.
    (Webster 1913)