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Provenance   Listen
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Provenance  n.  Origin; source; provenience. "Their age attested by their provenance and associations."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Provenance" Quotes from Famous Books



... years. The present Imperial Cabinet of ten Ministers, with their departments and departmental staff of officials, is a modified revival of the Eight Boards adapted from China and established in the seventh century.... The present administrative system is indeed of alien provenance; but it was neither borrowed nor adapted a generation ago, nor borrowed nor adapted from Europe. It was really a system of hoary antiquity that was revived to cope with pressing ...
— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell



Words linked to "Provenance" :   birthplace, beginning, provenience, source, root, origin, rootage



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