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Definition of Advent

Advent

The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

Coming; any important arrival; approach.

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Advent Quotations

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Theodore Bikel

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
Sun Myung Moon

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
Sun Myung Moon

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
John Nelson Darby

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
Dee Hock

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James H. Breasted

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.
Eric Alterman

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
George Crumb

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
Gunter Grass

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Alex Campbell

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.
Edward Felten

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.
Henry Villard

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Robert Rainy

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
Islom Karimov

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
Michael Oxley

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
Todd Akin

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Advent Translations

advent in Danish is advent
advent in Dutch is advent
advent in French is debur, avent
advent in German is Advent {m}, Anbruch, Beginn
advent in Italian is inizio
advent in Spanish is advenimiento

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