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- noun Plural form of
prevenience .
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Her care about the details of life seemed more than ever minute; she was always anticipating her mother in every direction, and striving by a thousand gentle preveniences to save her from fatigue and care; there was even a tenderness about her ministrations, as if the daughter had changed feelings and places with the mother.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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