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Outset vs Advent - What's the difference?

outset | advent |

As nouns the difference between outset and advent

is that outset is the beginning or initial stage of something while advent is coming; coming to; approach; arrival.

As a proper noun Advent is

the first or the expected second coming of Christ.

outset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the beginning or initial stage of something
    • He agreed and understood from the outset , so don't bother explaining again.
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset , Bolton started far the brighter.}}

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    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

    Related terms

    * Advent * advene * Adventist * Advent Sunday * adventual * Advent wreath