prevenance

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prevenance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prevenance \Prev"e*nance\, n. [F. pr['e]venance.] (Metaph.)
     A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. "The law
     of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal
     sequence." --Ward.
     [1913 Webster]