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Vinony

advent

noun

  1. arrival; onset
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæd.vɛnt/ / /ˈæd.vənt/

name

Etymology: From Saint Adwen (Saint Adwenna).

  1. A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

  1. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

    “Death's dreadful advent”

    “At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.”

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

  1. To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.

    “1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?”

    “The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.”