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Definition of Prevents
1. prevent [v] - See also: prevent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prevents
Literary usage of Prevents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (1894)
"V The Author by an extraordinary Stratagem, prevents an Invasion. A high Title
of Honour is conferr'd upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the Emperor of ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1790)
"Sudden arrival of the King ot Stockholm, prevents the ... the timely and happy
intervention of the mediating powers prevents the dreaded eff'eils. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The quarrel amongst the civil parties prevents the further loss of parliamentary
... It also prevents the reconstruction of the programme of the Socialists, ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"7. absorbent of moisture, prevents the deposit of ice or vapour on the cooled
tube in which the experiments are made. / is a cast-iron tablet intended to ..."
5. Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain by Edmund Burke (1790)
"... of> is perhaps the very thing which prevents us from thinking or acting as
members for ... prevents ..."
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