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Webster 1913 Edition

Advent

Adˊvent

,
Noun.
[L.
adventus
, fr.
advenire
,
adventum
: cf. F.
avent
. See
Advene
.]
1.
(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).
Shipley.
2.
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
3.
Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Death’s dreadful
advent
.
Young.
Expecting still his
advent
home.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Advent

AD'VENT

,
Noun.
[L. adventus, from advenio, of ad and venio, to come. See Find.]
A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew's Day, or on the sabbath next before or after it. It is intended as a season of devotion, with reference to the coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judge the world.

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