prevenient
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prevenient /prɪˈviːnɪənt/
▶adjective formal preceding; antecedent.
– origin C17: from L. praevenient-, praevenire ‘come before’, from prae ‘before’ + venire ‘come’.
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