provenience

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100) is of uncertain provenience, but is nearly related in style to the marbles of Aegina.

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  1. noun A source or origin.

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  • The lower 'large' and 'medium' bone production rates from Grave B indicate that the stratigraphic method better maintained the provenience and articulation of remains than did Grave A, while the higher 'small' bone recovery rate may point to better recovery techniques of Grave B's excavation team. genetics CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • There seems to be a mix-up with the provenience of Mozart: He was born in the sovereign Archbishopric of —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The software can yield a comparison of all these resources - number of applicants, their qualications and provenience. —  Slovak Spectator
  • · Digitally signing the generated files will ensure that your customers will never have to question the provenience of your software, and the user registration with serial code validation hooks will ensure that only legitimate users get to install your software. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • EMPORIUM draws itself onto a cultural territory that defies notions of regionalism and nation-based entitlements, by privileging instead the impression of a mobile, productively unstable experience of identity, which signals the emergence of aesthetic strategies and subjective orders of yet specific cultural provenience. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
 

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  1. Alteration of provenance.

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  1. = French provenance (later English provenance) = Italian provenienza, from New Latin *provenientia, origin, from Latin provenire, come forth, appear, originate, from pro, forth, + venire, come.
 

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/prəˈvinɪəns/
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