Definition of Advent

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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. Related Definitions: Any, Approach, Arrival, Before, Christ, Christmas, Coming, Expected, First, Four, Important, Including, Of, Or, Period, Second, The

Advent Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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