pervention
English
Noun
pervention (plural perventions)
- (archaic) A coming or arrival; advent
- 1658, Thomas Hall, A Practical and Polemical Commentary:
- yet in respect of inchoation, intention and purpose, though not in respect of pervention and full obtaining that purpose, we are called perfect.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- 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.
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