Advent synonyms

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arrival (related)
The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
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coming
Coming means an arrival.
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approach
The act of approaching:
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beginning
The place where something begins or is begun:
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incarnation
The definition of an incarnation is a person who stands for some abstract idea, or a person who embodies a God or deity in the flesh.
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commencement
The definition of commencement means the act or celebration of beginning.
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end (antonym)
The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
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departure (antonym)
A starting out, as on a trip or new course of action
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appearance
A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
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second-coming
The return of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment.
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Second Coming of Christ
(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
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second advent
(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
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allhallowtide
The time at or near All Hallows'.
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candlemas
The festival in the Christian year that commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple
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halloween
The eve of All Hallows' Day; 31st October; celebrated (mostly in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and Ireland) by children going door-to-door in costume and demanding candy with menaces.
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lammas
(Proper) A harvest festival formerly held in England on Aug. 1, when bread baked from the first crop of wheat was consecrated at Mass
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lammastide
The time of year around Lammas (August 1).
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lententide
(Christianity) The season of Lent.
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martinmas
A Christian feast observed on November 11 in commemoration of the death and burial of Saint Martin of Tours.
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michaelmas
A Christian feast observed on September 29 in honor of the archangel Michael.
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michaelmastide
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septuagesima
(Former) The third Sunday before Lent
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twelfth day
Epiphany.
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whit-tuesday
(Christianity) The Tuesday that immediately follows Whit Monday.
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whitmonday
The Monday immediately following Whitsunday
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whitsun
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whitsuntide
The first three days of that week
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whitweek
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emergence (related)
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demise (related)
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era (related)
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start (related)
An act of beginning; an initial effort:
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  • The advent of Thiers, his attitude towards the petition of French bishops on behalf of the pope, the recall of Senard, the French minister at Florencewho had written to congratulate Victor Emmanuel on the capture of Romeand the instructions given to his successor, the comte de Choiseul, to absent himself from Italy at the moment of the kings official entry into the new capital (2nd July 1871), together with the haste displayed in appointing a French ambassador to the Holy See, rapidly cooled the cordiality of Franco-Italian relations, and reassured Bismarck on the score of any dangerous intimacy between the two governments.

  • The advent of Christianity, with its categorical assertion of future happiness for the good, to a large extent did away with pessimism in the true sense.

  • Could you have foreseen that the advent of a technology called "air conditioning" in homes would alter the social fabric of the nation?

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