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Noun

advent (plural advents)

  • Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
    • ✤ *Death’s dreadful advent *1
    • ✤ 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.2
    • ✤ The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio’s advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side…3
    • ✤ Berlin’s six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.4

Verb

advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)

  • To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
    • ✤ 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?5
    • ✤ 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.6
    • ✤ Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.7
    • ✤ In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.8

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/
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Footnotes

  1. 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M[ary] Cooper […], →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1853, Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, in The Piazza Tales ‎, New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, published 1856: ↩

  3. 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation: ↩

  4. 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World’s Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51-52: ↩

  5. 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. ↩

  6. 1873, Francis Bret Harte, An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches: ↩

  7. 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India ↩

  8. 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives. ↩

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