advent

IPA: ˈædvɛnt

Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears.
(Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
(Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.
A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England; derived from Saint Adwen or Adwenna.
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church.

Examples of "advent" in Sentences

(The word "advent" comes from the Latin word that means
No; social intercourse may be long in coming, but its advent is sure; the mischief is already done.
Even in advent, we usually try and find time during the evening to light candles and sing a song or two.
As Jehovah's advent is glorious to His people, so it is terrible to His foes. burning coals -- Ps 18: 8 favors English Version.
To await its advent is to adopt a policy of indefinite drift, and possibly lose an opportunity that may never be so favourable again.
Hence His human nature could not [4151] be understood, prior to the consummation of those things which had been predicted, that is, the advent of Christ.
Zerubbabel's kingdom was not independent and settled; also all the prophets end their prophecies with Messiah, whose advent is the cure of all previous disorders.
Highlights of this title The advent of VoiceXML, the open standard for IVR and next-generation IVR platforms, is helping businesses to re-evaluate the strategic value of IVR in the enterprise.
Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of late 20th-century art as the most intractable of obstacles.