The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prevenient \Pre*ven"i*ent\, a. [L. praeveniens, p. pr.]
Going before; preceding; hence, preventive. ``Prevenient
grace descending.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to prevenience
WordNet
adj. in anticipation [syn: anticipatory]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "prevenient".
The way to perfection is by the due combination of prevenient, assisting free grace, and of submissive, assisted free will.
Certainly the Word says to me that God's grace is a prevenient grace which has already acted for me.
Therefore, since I thus consider myself to hold the faith of our redemption, by the prevenient grace of God, so that, even were I unable in any way to understand what I believe, still nothing could shake my constancy.
Though he had never regarded himself as other than an orthodox Christian, and would argue on prevenient grace if the subject were proposed to him, I think his virtual divinities were good practical schemes, accurate work, and the faithful completion of undertakings: his prince of darkness was a slack workman.