Meanings
plural perventions
- archaicA coming or arrival; advent
yet in respect of inchoation, intention and purpose, though not in respect of pervention and full obtaining that purpose, we are called perfect.
1658, Thomas Hall, A Practical and Polemical Commentary1 more example
So pondering, and from his armed peers / Forth stepping opposite, half way he met / His daring foe, at this pervention more / Incens'd, and thus securely him defy'd.
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
Origin
- Latinperventio
- Englishpervention
From Latin perventio, from pervenio.
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pervention. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pervention
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