Advent

Definitions

1. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
2. A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England.
3. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
4. The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.
5. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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