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Prevenient vs Anticipation - What's the difference?

prevenient | anticipation |

As an adjective prevenient

is of or pertaining to prevenience.

As a noun anticipation is

the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

prevenient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to prevenience
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.22:
    • They drank and bet and muttered in an air of electric transiency, old men in gaitered sleeves galvanized from some stained sepia, posting time at cards prevenient of their dimly augured doom.

    Derived terms

    *prevenient grace

    anticipation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
  • The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
  • * Thodey
    • The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
  • (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
  • (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
  • (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
    • Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.

    Synonyms

    * expectingness

    Related terms

    * anticipate * anticipator * anticipatory

    References

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