Advent vs Occurrence - What's the difference?

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Advent is a related term of occurrence.

As a proper noun advent

is (christianity) the first or the expected second coming of christ.

As a noun occurrence is

actual instance where a situation arises.

advent

English

Noun

(en noun)

Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.

* Young

Death's dreadful advent

* 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 3:

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.

(religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.

Synonyms

* (coming) arrival, approach, oncome, onset

occurrence

English

Noun

(en noun)

Actual instance where a situation arises.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

Usage notes

* This word is often misspelled occurence'', ''occurrance'' or ''occurance .