All 6 Uses of
prevent
in
The Screwtape Letters
- It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous.†
Chpt 3prevent = stop (something from happening)
- Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so.†
Chpt 4 *preventing = stopping (something from happening)
- So do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.†
Chpt 5
- As you ought to have known, the asphyxiating cloud which prevented your attacking the patient on his walk back from the old mill, is a well-known phenomenon.†
Chpt 13prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- The great thing is to prevent his doing anything.†
Chpt 13prevent = stop (something from happening)
- By building up a series of imaginary expedients to prevent "the worst coming to the worst" you may produce, at that level of his will which he is not aware of, a determination that the worst shall not come to the worst.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
to stop (something from happening)