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Obvention
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." Spenser. Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. Fuller.