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/ˈæd.vɛnt/
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/ˈæd.vənt/
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ˈæd.vɛnt
Noun
Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
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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.
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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...
Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.
Verb
To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
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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.
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1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.
2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives. In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.
Noun
arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
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the advent of the computer