provenience

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I mean, I’ve heard of provenance — the unbroken chain of ownership of, say, an old master painting or Tang dynasty vase — but provenience?

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2015

However, there is still no definitive word on the masks’ provenience and they say their detective work will continue.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2015

The folk-lore respecting the provenience of children may be divided into two categories.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

Even then there was a multiplicity of state legislatures and only one Congress, so that the legislative grist that found its way to the Court's mill was overwhelmingly of local provenience.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

Maeterlinck's speculations, despite their medieval provenience, have a practical orientation.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto