Both Uses
prevent
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen molt no feather.†
p. 101.7 *prevent = stop (something from happening)
- There's something in his soul
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood,
And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
Will be some danger; which for to prevent,
I have in quick determination
Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England
For the demand of our neglected tribute.†p. 133.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(prevent) to stop (something from happening)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)