prevenance

See also: prévenance

English

Etymology

French prévenance.

Noun

prevenance (countable and uncountable, plural prevenances)

1. A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.
   • 1779, William George Ward, “Free Will”, in The Dublin Review:

     The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prevenance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)