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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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... its centenary, the Marine Band was ordered to Fayetteville to participate in the ceremonies. The little Southern town was much interested in the advent of the "President's Band," and the prevailing opinion was that "Dixie" would be tabooed music with us. Before the exercises a local committee waited upon me and intimated that "Dixie" was a popular melody in ...

— The Experiences of a Bandmaster • John Philip Sousa

... sexes and the sexual life brought a new element of conflict into the living world. Before the advent of the sexes the conflict was essentially for the means of existence, food alone. But with the sexual life came a conflict for sex pleasure, a competition among members of the same species for the same ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... reassuring; to my companion it was contumely and insult. All the ingenious fiction he had devised of our birth, parentage, and pursuits, was a fine romance inedited, and he was left to sneer at the self-sufficiency that would not take alarm at the advent of two ragged youths on ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various

... sound. The guard at the upper end of the square was not aware of their advent until Roldan reached them. He was out of breath, but he caught the arm of the man nearest him and pointed. In a second the word had passed, and the handful of defendants stared helplessly at the advancing hordes. But only for a moment. Padre Flores shouted to fall into line, then ordered ...

— The Valiant Runaways • Gertrude Atherton

... three days after the arrival of Mrs. Denton and her mother—whose advent had accomplished much toward promoting the young Belgian's convalescence—when little Maurie suddenly reappeared on ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross • Edith Van Dyne

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