prevenient

adjective2

1. •
   Of grace: preceding repentance or faith and preparing the soul for salvation.

   • So that in euery place we may see the mercy of god, eyther prevenient, or concomitant, eyther moving him to pitie us, or manifested in pitieing — 1626
2. •
   (formal) Relating to prevenience; antecedent; preceding; coming or happening before.

   • They drank and bet and muttered in an air of electric transiency, old men in gaitered sleeves galvanized from some stained sepia, posting time at cards prevenient of their dimly augured doom. — 1979