Definition of Advnt
Ad`vent (&?;), n. [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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- coming; coming to; approach; arrival
- the first or the expected second coming of Christ
- the period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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