advenient

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adjective

Caused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.

OriginLatin advenīre →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectiveadvenient (comparative more advenient, superlative most advenient)

comparative more advenient · superlative most advenient

  1. archaicCaused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.

    Lastly, being thus divided from truth in themselves, they are yet farther removed by advenient deception.

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3

Origin

  1. Latinadvenīre
  2. Englishadvenient

From the present participle of Latin advenīre.

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Chicago

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