pervention

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Definition of pervention

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noun

(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.”
“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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From Latin perventio, from pervenio.

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