Prevent: v.tr. (word coming from the Latin praevenire “to come in front, forward”).
The verb “prevent” has several meanings:
I) Precede, get ahead of:
1. Aged meaning: To get ahead of (someone) in accomplishing something, to act before (another).
– Quote from the French writer Jules Michelet (1798-1874): “He had warned him by taking refuge in the monastery of Cluny”.
2. To go ahead of (something), to hasten the accomplishment (to get ahead of it).
Prevent the...
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