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Prevenience vs Provenance - What's the difference?

prevenience | provenance |

As nouns the difference between prevenience and provenance

is that prevenience is (methodism) the act or condition of occurring earlier, of being antecedent while provenance is place or source of origin.

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

    *

    provenance

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia provenance) (en noun)
  • Place or source of origin.
    • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  • (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
    • This spear is of Viking provenance .
  • (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
    • The picture is of royal provenance .
  • (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
  • (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
  • (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.

    • See also

    * provenience

    Usage notes

    * The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance'' because ''provenience'' is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper ''provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.