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provenience
noun as in origin
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- causation
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
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Maeterlinck's speculations, despite their medieval provenience, have a practical orientation.
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None of this material has provenience data, nearly all of it having turned up in the process of trenching.
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This also indicates an early provenience for Wheeler points.
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The methods of Futurism have their provenience in many preceding art movements.
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It was therefore considered adequate, when returning to the field, to designate provenience by excavation unit and level only.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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