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noun

Advent n.

(Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. "Death's dreadful advent." "Expecting still his advent home."

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Etymology of 'Advent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Advent" Quotes from Famous Books

... three days afterward to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Tranquil Vale alone regarded the advent of the newcomers with a certain amount of uneasiness, the joy of Ted and the twins when they found that there was a river at the bottom of the garden, threatening to pass all bounds. In a state of wild excitement they sat on the fence and waved to passing craft, until in an attempt to do justice ...

— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs

... world is revising its entire cook book on account of the advent of Crisco, a new and altogether different ...

— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil

... of the frothy mass. Each time it does so an egg is doubtless deposited; but the operation is so rapid, and takes place under conditions so unfavourable for observation, that I have never once been enabled to see the oviduct at work. I can only judge of the advent of the eggs by the movements of the end of the abdomen, which is immersed more deeply with a sudden ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

... usual for the army to halt before a beleaguered city and await the advent in all humility of the vanquished. Commonly it was the mayor of a town who came, followed by his councillors in their robes, to explain that the army had abandoned the city, which now begged to throw itself upon the mercy of ...

— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman

... now King of Poland, but that her father lived with her at her hotel, and would be enchanted to see his dear cousin, only that he, like herself, would be desolated at the effects of that most miserable of errors. She had been returning from her Advent retreat at a convent, where she had been praying for the soul of the late M. de Selinville, when a true Providence had made her remark the colours of her family. And now, nothing would serve her, but that this dear Baron should be carried at ...

— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

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