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pervention

pervention noun: a coming or arrival; advent.

Noun

pervention (plural perventions)

  1. (archaic) A 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 Commentary
    • 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

Forms of pervention

pluralperventions

Origin of pervention

From Latin perventio, from pervenio.

Questions about pervention

What does pervention mean?
Pervention means a coming or arrival; advent.
What part of speech is pervention?
Pervention is a noun.
What is the plural of pervention?
The plural of pervention is perventions.

Words near pervention in the dictionary

  1. pervasiveness
  2. perve
  3. perveance
  4. perveances
  5. perved
  6. pervention
  7. perventions
  8. perverb
  9. perverbs
  10. perverse
  11. perversed

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