advent

Definition

Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

Example Sentences

• "Death's dreadful advent"
• "At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy."
• "The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side..."