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adventing

adventing is the present participle of advent.

Meaning of advent

Verb

advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)

  1. To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
    • But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.

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Questions about adventing

What is adventing the present participle of?
Adventing is the present participle of advent.

Words near adventing in the dictionary

  1. adventerous
  2. advential
  3. adventicectomies
  4. adventicectomy
  5. adventicious
  6. adventing
  7. advention
  8. adventions
  9. adventious
  10. adventiously
  11. Adventism

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