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    What would Shakespeare have meant by the word "prevent". How is it different from today? What part of the dictionary would you find it?

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    See if this makes sense in response to your question:


    Late Middle English (in the sense ‘act in anticipation of’): from Latin praevent- ‘preceded, hindered,’ from the verb praevenire, from prae ‘before’ + venire ‘come.’L

    rollylariviere

    My answer would of been.."look in the letter "p" ?? prevent? Oh well I give up that Shakespeare stuff long ago.
    Bob/PKB

    Sometimes you have to look past the obvious to help with an answer. An American dictionary isn't going to be a whole lot of help with this question! I don't know that my answer helped because I don't know in what context Shakespeare used the word.


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