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noun

Prevention n.

The act of going, or state of being, before. (Obs.) "The greater the distance, the greater the prevention."

Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. (Obs.)

The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. "Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention."

Prejudice; prepossession. (A Gallicism)

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"Prevention" Quotes from Famous Books

... have read relating to the "Middle Kingdom." With true Chinese insight, the largest salary was paid the nurse who successfully reared the greatest number of babies. When I lived in China, the laws for the prevention of infanticide were as stringent as our own, but they were often successfully evaded. Poverty was so grinding in the East that the slaughter of children was one of its most pitiable consequences. Infants ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... that other things, he not only has not foreordained, but, has condemned and prohibited them, and yet permits or suffers them to be, in preference to that violent interference with free agency which would be necessary to their forcible prevention. ...

— The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted • Francis Hodgson

... not surprised that it should stand without the use of its legs. But the stout soldier was the only one in the island who enjoyed the blessing of health. He was fresh, vigorous, and vigilant; they, exhausted, weak, and careless of everything except cure. He soon took measures for the prevention of future mischief and for the cure of the present; and when his fellow-islanders had recovered, some were grateful, others ...

— The Voyage of Captain Popanilla • Benjamin Disraeli

... prevalence of northerly winds can force the icebergs beyond 78 degrees of south latitude, as they invariably ground on reaching the outer edge of the polar bank. The floes, being thin, are melted of course; and thus, by this beneficent prevention, the monikin world is kept entirely free from the very danger to which a vulgar mind would be the most apt to believe it is ...

— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... meet Miss Tilney again continued in full force the next morning; and till the usual moment of going to the pump-room, she felt some alarm from the dread of a second prevention. But nothing of that kind occurred, no visitors appeared to delay them, and they all three set off in good time for the pump-room, where the ordinary course of events and conversation took place; Mr. Allen, after drinking his glass of water, joined some gentlemen ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

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