advent

Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

Death's dreadful advent

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.

1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. 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?

The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.

An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.