Definition of Preventing

1. Verb. (present participle of prevent) ¹

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Definition of Preventing

1. prevent [v] - See also: prevent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventing

preveniences
prevenient
prevenient grace
preveniently
prevening
prevent
preventability
preventable
preventative
preventatively
preventatives
prevented
preventer
preventers
preventible
preventing (current term)
preventingly
prevention
prevention is better than cure
preventional
preventions
preventive
preventive attack
preventive medicine
preventive strike
preventively
preventiveness
preventives
prevents
preverb

Literary usage of Preventing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"... to be the best mode of preventing disfigurement of the face. — Dublin Quarterly Journal. 26. Methods of preventing Pitting of the Face in Confluent 27. ..."

2. Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy: A Half-Century of U.S by Glenn E. Schweitzer (2004)
"... 2002 preventing THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR MATERIALS Nuclear weapons or nuclear materials that could be used to develop nuclear ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by Sir William Blackstone, John Williams, Richard Burn (1791)
"OF THE MEANS OF preventing OFFENCES. WE are now arrived at the fifth general ... this book of our commentaries; viz. the means of preventing the ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, John Taylor Coleridge (1825)
"•_ • ^ rf OF THE MEANS OP preventing OFFENCES. . . • i . . ' . . .' . • . IE are now arrived at the fifth general branch, or head, under which I proposed to ..."

5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Promulgates a new set of Canons : A new oath for preventing innovations in religion. Failure of military ope rations against the Scots. 1640, Aug. 38. ..."

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