obvention

English

Etymology

From Latin obventio, from obvenire (“to come before or in the way of, to befall”), from ob (see ob-) + venire (“to come”). Compare French obvention.

Noun

obvention (plural obventions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
    • Edmund Spenser
      Tithes and other obventions.
    • Fuller
      Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for obvention in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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