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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--prevenient This week's theme: miscellaneous words. prevenient (pri-VEEN-yuhnt) adjective Coming before; anticipatory; preventive. [From Latin praevenient-, present participle of praevenire (to precede), from pre- (before) + venire (to come).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "[Frank Stella's] big, shield-like 'Luis Miguel Dominguin' a silver-painted shaped canvas was acquired in 1961, a prevenient time indeed to buy Stella." Grace Glueck; A Collection That Breathes the Spirit of Modernism; The New York Times; Apr 8, 1984. X-Bonus The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -Walter Lippmann, journalist (1889-1974)

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