Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which happens or is done or made incidentally or occasionally; incidental advantage; specifically, an offering, a tithe, or an oblation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
happening incidentally ; that which happenscasually ; an incidentaladvantage ; anoccasional offering .
Etymologies
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Latin obvention, from obvenire to come before or in the way of, to befall; ob (see ob-) + venire to come: compare French obvention.
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