Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Advent

Four weeks to commemorate the first and second coming of Christ; the first to redeem, and the second to judge the world. The season begins on St. Andrew's Day, or the Sunday nearest to it. (Latin, ad-ventus, the coming to.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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